Living in Upstate New York all my life, I know which baseball fans I am going to come across on a regular basis: Yankees fans, without a doubt. More of these than anything else. I don't get it. But it's obviously the chosen team around here. Mets fans to a lesser degree. Over the years, the ranks of Red Sox fans have grown in this area and it's probably equal to the number of Mets fans I come across now. Dodgers fans are in the definite minority, but they exist and I've always known others besides myself. Over the many years, I've come across fans of almost every team. I can think of Mariners fans I've known here in the Northeast. I've known Angels fans and A's fans. I've met Twins fans, Royals fans and Rays fans. But one kind of fan I know I have never met in more than 50 years on this planet is a Padres fan. I had never heard of such a thing growing up. When I was a kid, the Padres were the worst of the worst. Why would someone be a fan of th...
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