Your username is way too awesome to be wasted on A’s fans.

Cuz you would be breaking the 10 commandment, Bill of rights, man law, and the Constitution!

Because you’d just end up rooting for all your favorite players on other teams, and you’d never be able to buy a player Jersey that won’t look stupid in two years.

The filtering out of all the new “Pac Bell” fans continues. Candlestickians, rise up!!

You will have to listen to that annoying whistle from the left field bleachers at every home game.

“Now batting, designated hitter…”

For the same reason I shouldn’t become a Red Sox fan.

two words: white shoes.

Youu can root for a team of clowns if you want. i’ll stick with the orange and black and hope that their talent will someday match the classy tradition of the uniform.

god…i’m depressing myself.

...they wear green. And, sometimes, gold. And play in Oakland.

..... winning is overrated

And that’s got to count for something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTvSUCCqPo

Ah hell, go be an A’s fan you sellout.

Because they’re the A’s…

Yuck.

I feel you should pick one team and stick with them. It makes it that much more enjoyable when they win again (even if that time is 50 years from now). Sure, the Giants are a bad team, but they’re our bad team, damnit!

Just remember, whichever side you choose, Giants or A’s, stay on one side. Don’t be that guy with the godawful half-and-half cap.

Because Bob Geren’s cranium < Bruce Bochy’s cranium

...”If you have to ask, you’ll never know.”

Go ahead and become an A’s fan and watch how in 10 years the situation will be reversed. The Giants will have the better farm system than the A’s (assuming we have a new GM who knows what they are doing) and you will be thinking about switching back.

Just like in life, sports have cycles. Just 4 years ago the Giants won 90 games. Give em’ another 4 (or 10) years and they will win 90 games again. I am optimistic that the farm system will look in much better shape in 3 years as will the Giants.

“Patience is a virtue….but virtues are overrated.”
-A bum I met on the street

Because then you’d post on Athletics Nation.

(KIDDING AN folks. Don’t stab me.)

On paper, I’d say they probably have a worse team than we do, even.

don’t do it because you don’t understand how baseball works well enough to be an a’s fan.

also, the a’s probably have the second or third best farm system after the haren/swisher trades (and no, that is not based on average ages of players in the system).

because they have an awesome and selfless clubhouse culture. Even Frank Thomas and Eric Chavez are only one of 25 guys trying to get a job done together as a team.

If the Giants eventually create a positive clubhouse culture, teamed with effective organizational-level philosophy and instruction, they will be greater than the sum of their parts, too.

Rooting for a losing team is hard, especially one that makes a lot of incompetent and incomprehensible moves.

As a final thought, Giants fans hating on the A’s and vice versa is inefficient. The hate is much more efficiently used against our enemies down south. Dodger and Angel fans are a bunch of fair-weather posers that spend more time text-messaging than watching the damn game, and that’s inexcusable.

still not this one. one word:

GAMERS.

lincecum.

And have been since childhood. The Giants are more important to me now (sadly, perhaps), but when I was little, it was all about the A’s (I knew nothing about steroids, thank goodness). And I’ll confess: I like the feeling at A’s games more than at Giants games. AT&T park is a hundred times nicer than the coliseum, but the coliseum is home to some passionate folks. At AT&T, the passionate folks are all too often a minority.

...and even the experts have bashed Beane’s drafting recently.

Also, because at least the Giants try to win, rather than Beane throwing in the towel and trading away the team every few years.

Because there’s a fan hat and pretend GM hat.

We all like to put on the pretend GM hat and treat the roster like a game of RBI baseball. And, to be frank, the Giants are pretty frustrating when viewed from the GM’s eye view.

But the fan hat is all about an emotional connection with a team, which can cause you to pull for players you didn’t want your GM to acquire. I would find it emotionally difficult to not be Giants fan.

Personally, I love the A’s (the adorable little scrapsters), and I can’t wait to see what kind of team they have after Buck and Thomas start actually hitting. But I could never think of myself as an A’s fan first. It would just be emotionally weird.

p.s. Go Rajai! We miss you.

Someone else said it before I could…but dude…THEY WEAR WHITE FUCKING CLEATS!!!

Secondly…your reference to AAAA players in the minor league system…you do know that one Mr. Todd Linden is starting in left field for the AAA Rivercats, don’t you? Oh, and Knodeler…he’s their catcher. (I for one think Knodeler got a raw deal while in our system…but ya…there’s no excuse for carrying Linden on any squad.)

Reason #1: they’re probably going to be playing in Fremont in a few years. FREMONT.

Because who wants to root for a well-run team that actually wins the World Series every once in awhile?

You ask why you shouldn’t switch to the A’s, and then your case is that they have the better near future. Isn’t this the same question as, “Why shouldn’t I be a frontrunner?”

You don’t pick teams for winning potential, otherwise you have to periodically switch. That’s just anti-sports.

Having said that, i’ve always been a Giants first, A’s second fan, as opposed to those who say Giants first, A’s last. I mean, come on, it is fun to follow both teams, and it rarely puts me in a bind.

The A’s are still around?

Because it’s no fun to have an inferiority complex all the time.

Again, coming as an honest A’s fan second to being a Giants fan, the one thing that really annoys me about the A’s is how whiny their fan base is about the Giants. Wha Wha Wha! Get over it.

Because it’s almost as bad as being a Dodgers fan, especially if you were around in 1989. Because it means you’d probably wear a split A’s/Giants cap proudly as if that’s something cool to ever wear.

Because it’s what fair weather fans do, when their team is down they abandon ship.

Because it’s what women do.

Because it’s like willingly having a sex change operation.

Because it’s the fricken A’s. Nobody dates the red head with the head-gear.

Because Sabean’s plan to model the Giants after the Padres is coming to fruition better than anyone anticipated (especially the Padres). And you all doubted him; the main is a prophet.

We must really hate the A’s

’ cause it’s the American League?

I got nothing against the A’s except the large contingent of fans that insist on carrying this “working man’s team” idea, which is basically a nice way of saying “low rent”. I also get a little tired of the “we’re better fans cause we get rowdier” braggadocio, which is like saying the guy in the bar starting fights is a better drinker than you.

Soon enough they’ll be the Fremont A’s of San Jose Brought To You By Cisco and you’ll remember why you didn’t change allegiance.

Because then you wouldn’t know where your pants are!