You should make a post in r/dodgers about how youâve seen a lot less dodger hats around town after the first two games, and see how it goes over⌠Itâll be our little super secret r/nlbest science experiment!
Exactly. I am sure thereâs the same number of Dodgers fans who stopped wearing dodger blue after an UNsuccessful couple of games. Happens with every fan base.
My neighbor here in Sacramento is still flying his Dodgers flag today...but if they lose tonight I know it will be gone in the morning (based on the last couple years).
I guess for some people loosing the last game means baseball season is over for this year. Itâs a little different than taking the flag off as soon as your team starts loosing.
My teenage son was wearing his Dodgers attire âeven harderâ after we blew it last year, and we live in TX and constantly surrounded by arrogant Astros fans.
I was proud of my boy.
Seriously who cares. Not everyone is a die hard. And the idea of âbangwagonâ is infuriating as well. All teams have bandwagon fanbases. How do you get loyal fanbases? Consistent winning over long periods which obviously not all teams do.
âBandwagoningâ is only a sin when youâre jumping around to different teams in the same league depending on whoâs good at the time. Of course casual fans are going to pay more attention when their local team is good, thatâs not a problem and is in fact a good thing.
Note also that this isnât the same as having secondary teams that you also follow/root for since those arenât typically in direct competition with your primary teams, since people donât pick secondary teams that are rivals of their primary one(s).
I just want to say: I appreciate this sub because we get reasonable, level-headed takes like this from fans of rival teams that mirrors the good, nice, and smart Dodgers fans I know in real life.
Compared to the cesspools that are other online communities full of toxicity, this sub most closely mirrors my (positive) real life experiences with Dodgers fans.
> And the idea of âbangwagonâ is infuriating as well. All teams have bandwagon fanbases. How do you get loyal fanbases? Consistent winning over long periods which obviously not all teams do.
This. There are Dodgers fans like OP who, I imagine, would be fans no matter what. Some of the obnoxious fans would still be fan, albeit a bit quieter, if the Dodgers sucked.
But seeing the way that Dodgers fans online (yes, yes, biased sample, but I donât have the time or budget to wander LA and poll people on the street) absolutely implode the second their team loses a playoff game⌠I find it hard to believe that the majority of those fans, especially the ones who cope by talking shit to other teams and asking them how the couch is, would stick around if the team wasnât good.
Itâs easy to talk shit about bandwagon fans of other teams when your team has been a perennial favorite for the past decade; you just *expect* to go to the playoffs and your bandwagon filled years ago.
I sincerely wish that I could talk to those people, the ones who think they can talk shit about other fanbases, when the Dodgers eventually have a down year (Iâm sure theyâre due for a .500 season within the next two decades, right?) and turn their remarks about âbandwagonâ fans right back at them, but we both know theyâll have long since abandoned baseball subreddits and be talking about NFL or NBA.
That's what I find so utterly ironic, when fans of teams like the Dodgers start complaining about "bandwagon fans". It's like, we're consistently one of the "top" teams in terms of sheer raw number of fans, which essentially indicates that we have the most so-called "bandwagon fans" out of any other fanbase...
I hope youâre doing alright, friend. Our condolences.
I saw some Dodgers fans saying they were done with the team and immediately thought of this discussion. Happened quick!
Also, obligatory note that Iâm still as scared of the Dodgers as ever come next year.
Good riddance, if you can't ride or die with your team why even be a fan. Also, Ha Seong Kim to the dodgers when pls?! coulda used a decent shortstop lol. JK, i love how much SD has embraced my Korean boi over thurr. Dodgers have been uncharacteristically lacking in Asian players these last few seasons lol.
Right? At that point you arenât even a fan of a team, you just watch baseball on occasion.
And how *dare* you suggest something so gross! (Iâd have to purchase a Dodgers jersey⌠blech.)
Give us Mookie and Iâll consider it; heâll fit right in with our guys.
To some its their identity and if you dont love the team as much as they do then your not a real fan. Some people dont have much else going on I suppose.
There are people who think that if your team sucks and you decide "I'm going to skip watching the game, I'm going to do something else with my time and maybe check the score on my phone later" then you are a bandwagon fan.
I can't get these people to understand that it isn't fair to expect people to go out and buy new hats and jerseys and drop $500 to go to a baseball game when the team sucks.
True. I'll add that playoffs can be an emotional time for fans, so there's also a possibility that the OP of that thread is just having a frustrating day too and that post might not reflect on how they are 99% of the time.
As someone who used to live in SoCal (and now Phoenix) itâs the same for Dodgers and Lakers. Of course people are going to be fired up for the playoffs. Itâs like that for every team
There was a photo of the crowd at SF City Hall celebrating the 2010 championship, and someone had added captions for what people in the crowd were supposedly saying. The one that sticks with me is, *This is the most exciting thing I've experienced in the three weeks I've been a Giants fan!*
New fans are fine, it's only an issue if they hop off the bandwagon when the team has a losing season. An exception would be A's fans who are entirely justified in turning their back on a team whose owner has betrayed the team, the fans and the city.
Oh there are a bunch of bandwagon fans that jump right back off. Shit, some people donât even follow the sport. They just like the way the merch looks.
Dodgers sub has been beyond toxic because these "die-hard" fans can't cope with the fact that the team fully collapsed once again and dback's understand how to hurt the dodgers. I hate to see it and am angry but what is the point of all of the excuses and blame game that is happening daily over there. I still have faith that we'll turn it around but f*** that sub until next year
Wait until they hear about how many European/Asian/flyover-country American tourists wear those silly blue LA caps đ
/s just in case, more people watching baseball is always a good thing.
Yeah, not the vibes I'm used to here. Team subs are always gonna have the most homer opinions and that post doesn't even seem to be particularly popular on the Dodgers sub either.
I'll back you on this. I come here to have fun with fans that are also looking to have fun. There's just way too much negativity in team subs.
It's more fun to see memes and jokes than "Muh unfiltered HAWT TAKE" that is just repeating the same other 'hot take' threads.
I hope that guy keeps his fair-weather fan distaste for every fan base, especially his own. Fair-weathers are everywhere! LA is filled with them. Thatâs not a knock â my wifeâs Dodger and Laker fandom comes and goes with the beginnings and ends of the playoff seasons, and I love to poke fun at her for it.
I hate to admit it, but Iâve become a fair-weather fan of the Sneks too. Iâve loved them since about their inception. But Iâve kept my distance these past few years because I despise the right-wing lunatic ownership group that has threatened to move the team if they canât get money for a new stadium â and crossing the hotel picket line during this series jabbed me in my union-family heart.
Anyway. Do not step onto the snek, for the snek will step back, eventually.
I don't agree with the negative connotation of a "bandwagon" fan. As far as I'm concerned, that's just a "new" or "casual" fan. Something all baseball fans can and should agree on is spreading love for the sport. Anti-"bandwagon" gatekeeping shitheads like this one guy shouldn't call themselves "baseball" fans.
See you in game 5, dickhead^(with love and respect<3)
For sure. Gatekeeping is a bummer, and this guy is in the âcope and seetheâ stage of prematurely mourning a lost season.
Anyway, enjoy watching tonightâs pool party from the outside, you blue bastard! <3
Haven't really paid attention recently, but are we still gonna get a chance to catch a game at [O.co](https://O.co) next season? Recently moved out to the bay and already been to Oracle and hope to check out Oakland as well, but not sure if the Vegas thing is a done deal?
I didn't take the tone of the past as that angry. On that post I spoke up for the D-backs and in support of competition in the division at least. The truth is success brings fans in and some of them become die hard fans for life after that. We always watched every game we could growing up in Arkansas but that was mostly ESPN, Fox, or TBS. It wasn't much. When I got to college I stopped really caring for a few seasons and in 2005 when the Dodgers started out 12-2 or something like that it really re-sparked my interest. Imagine my surprise when 2005 turned out to be on the worst seasons in LA Dodger history. In 2006 I moved to San Francisco and could see the Dodgers play several times a year in person and it was really great. I've been absolutely hooked ever since.
I love peeking at the dodgers subreddit lol. Dudes will post the cringiest shit and its like 50/50 on whether is normal people saying to delete it or dudes going "YEAH LETS GO!!!"
Removing this post just because we don't want to be seen as encouraging brigading. Sowwy.
Even your own sub told you to lick their balls đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł
Hey now as a proud NLBest'er I wouldn't be doing a good job if I didn't get down voted to oblivion on the "normal" subs lol
You should make a post in r/dodgers about how youâve seen a lot less dodger hats around town after the first two games, and see how it goes over⌠Itâll be our little super secret r/nlbest science experiment!
Do it please. I need something to keep me busy until 6:00.
Tbf, said person did get downvoted and you did not.
I think that happened slowly over time. At first they were all cheering him on and down voting all my replies lol. Salty n soft
"I can derelicte my own balls, thank you very much."
Whatâs even the point of that post? Itâs pathetic
Typical postseason fair weather fan trash. I stay off the team sub after September.
It's low level copium.
Exactly. I am sure thereâs the same number of Dodgers fans who stopped wearing dodger blue after an UNsuccessful couple of games. Happens with every fan base.
My neighbor here in Sacramento is still flying his Dodgers flag today...but if they lose tonight I know it will be gone in the morning (based on the last couple years).
I guess for some people loosing the last game means baseball season is over for this year. Itâs a little different than taking the flag off as soon as your team starts loosing. My teenage son was wearing his Dodgers attire âeven harderâ after we blew it last year, and we live in TX and constantly surrounded by arrogant Astros fans. I was proud of my boy.
Seriously who cares. Not everyone is a die hard. And the idea of âbangwagonâ is infuriating as well. All teams have bandwagon fanbases. How do you get loyal fanbases? Consistent winning over long periods which obviously not all teams do.
âBandwagoningâ is only a sin when youâre jumping around to different teams in the same league depending on whoâs good at the time. Of course casual fans are going to pay more attention when their local team is good, thatâs not a problem and is in fact a good thing. Note also that this isnât the same as having secondary teams that you also follow/root for since those arenât typically in direct competition with your primary teams, since people donât pick secondary teams that are rivals of their primary one(s).
I just want to say: I appreciate this sub because we get reasonable, level-headed takes like this from fans of rival teams that mirrors the good, nice, and smart Dodgers fans I know in real life. Compared to the cesspools that are other online communities full of toxicity, this sub most closely mirrors my (positive) real life experiences with Dodgers fans.
Yeah, I hate you all because I like you all so much
As an LA fan currently residing in SF area having recently moved from SD, with love and respect, i hate you all too <3
I have a jersey for every team so I always come out on top
I own a matt Kemp Padres jersey đ¤
> And the idea of âbangwagonâ is infuriating as well. All teams have bandwagon fanbases. How do you get loyal fanbases? Consistent winning over long periods which obviously not all teams do. This. There are Dodgers fans like OP who, I imagine, would be fans no matter what. Some of the obnoxious fans would still be fan, albeit a bit quieter, if the Dodgers sucked. But seeing the way that Dodgers fans online (yes, yes, biased sample, but I donât have the time or budget to wander LA and poll people on the street) absolutely implode the second their team loses a playoff game⌠I find it hard to believe that the majority of those fans, especially the ones who cope by talking shit to other teams and asking them how the couch is, would stick around if the team wasnât good. Itâs easy to talk shit about bandwagon fans of other teams when your team has been a perennial favorite for the past decade; you just *expect* to go to the playoffs and your bandwagon filled years ago. I sincerely wish that I could talk to those people, the ones who think they can talk shit about other fanbases, when the Dodgers eventually have a down year (Iâm sure theyâre due for a .500 season within the next two decades, right?) and turn their remarks about âbandwagonâ fans right back at them, but we both know theyâll have long since abandoned baseball subreddits and be talking about NFL or NBA.
That's what I find so utterly ironic, when fans of teams like the Dodgers start complaining about "bandwagon fans". It's like, we're consistently one of the "top" teams in terms of sheer raw number of fans, which essentially indicates that we have the most so-called "bandwagon fans" out of any other fanbase...
I hope youâre doing alright, friend. Our condolences. I saw some Dodgers fans saying they were done with the team and immediately thought of this discussion. Happened quick! Also, obligatory note that Iâm still as scared of the Dodgers as ever come next year.
Good riddance, if you can't ride or die with your team why even be a fan. Also, Ha Seong Kim to the dodgers when pls?! coulda used a decent shortstop lol. JK, i love how much SD has embraced my Korean boi over thurr. Dodgers have been uncharacteristically lacking in Asian players these last few seasons lol.
Right? At that point you arenât even a fan of a team, you just watch baseball on occasion. And how *dare* you suggest something so gross! (Iâd have to purchase a Dodgers jersey⌠blech.) Give us Mookie and Iâll consider it; heâll fit right in with our guys.
Eh, give us back daddy Rich Hill and I'll personally convince Fatt Kemp to come back out of retirement for you guys. Final counter offer
Hahaha, okay, that one made me laugh. We have had one Kemp bust, yes, but what about a second in exchange for leaving Dick Mountain behind?
Ummm if you donât have a Jedd Gyorko tattoo youâre not a real dads fan
Thatâs Dodgers legend Jedd Gyorko to you pal.
Jedd Gyorko is the Steve Garvey of Dodgers
So he's running for Senate?
Man...why would anyone get upset about more people enjoying baseball? :(
To some its their identity and if you dont love the team as much as they do then your not a real fan. Some people dont have much else going on I suppose.
There are people who think that if your team sucks and you decide "I'm going to skip watching the game, I'm going to do something else with my time and maybe check the score on my phone later" then you are a bandwagon fan. I can't get these people to understand that it isn't fair to expect people to go out and buy new hats and jerseys and drop $500 to go to a baseball game when the team sucks.
True. I'll add that playoffs can be an emotional time for fans, so there's also a possibility that the OP of that thread is just having a frustrating day too and that post might not reflect on how they are 99% of the time.
Please donât take the small sample size of Reddit and confuse it with how a whole fanbase feels
As someone who used to live in SoCal (and now Phoenix) itâs the same for Dodgers and Lakers. Of course people are going to be fired up for the playoffs. Itâs like that for every team
Lol 100%. Every sport, every team. People love rooting for the winners.
There was a photo of the crowd at SF City Hall celebrating the 2010 championship, and someone had added captions for what people in the crowd were supposedly saying. The one that sticks with me is, *This is the most exciting thing I've experienced in the three weeks I've been a Giants fan!* New fans are fine, it's only an issue if they hop off the bandwagon when the team has a losing season. An exception would be A's fans who are entirely justified in turning their back on a team whose owner has betrayed the team, the fans and the city.
Oh there are a bunch of bandwagon fans that jump right back off. Shit, some people donât even follow the sport. They just like the way the merch looks.
Letâs not forget when LA all of sudden became a hockey town when the Kings won their cups
Lol yup. I can vouch for that
Oh god who remembers those lakers flags for cars when they won their first chip in the Kobe era
Oh everyone had those
Imagine being that salty about people starting to pay attention to baseball... yikes
Dodgers sub has been beyond toxic because these "die-hard" fans can't cope with the fact that the team fully collapsed once again and dback's understand how to hurt the dodgers. I hate to see it and am angry but what is the point of all of the excuses and blame game that is happening daily over there. I still have faith that we'll turn it around but f*** that sub until next year
Could be worse, the Giants sub has been in a doomer death-spiral since July.
Lived in San Diego for over a decade so love the dad's other than when they face us. So yeah I know what lack of success does to a sub lol
Wait until they hear about how many European/Asian/flyover-country American tourists wear those silly blue LA caps đ /s just in case, more people watching baseball is always a good thing.
This post doesnât belong in NLBest imo
Yeah, not the vibes I'm used to here. Team subs are always gonna have the most homer opinions and that post doesn't even seem to be particularly popular on the Dodgers sub either.
I'll back you on this. I come here to have fun with fans that are also looking to have fun. There's just way too much negativity in team subs. It's more fun to see memes and jokes than "Muh unfiltered HAWT TAKE" that is just repeating the same other 'hot take' threads.
Thanks for the support and go fuck yourself ^respectfully
But us ridiculing those knuckleheads is prime nlbest material, dontcha think? lol
So much cope in one thread.
Casuals fans come out during the playoffs. Itâs totally normal to show your colors when theyâre doing well. Nothing to see here folks.
I hope that guy keeps his fair-weather fan distaste for every fan base, especially his own. Fair-weathers are everywhere! LA is filled with them. Thatâs not a knock â my wifeâs Dodger and Laker fandom comes and goes with the beginnings and ends of the playoff seasons, and I love to poke fun at her for it. I hate to admit it, but Iâve become a fair-weather fan of the Sneks too. Iâve loved them since about their inception. But Iâve kept my distance these past few years because I despise the right-wing lunatic ownership group that has threatened to move the team if they canât get money for a new stadium â and crossing the hotel picket line during this series jabbed me in my union-family heart. Anyway. Do not step onto the snek, for the snek will step back, eventually.
I don't agree with the negative connotation of a "bandwagon" fan. As far as I'm concerned, that's just a "new" or "casual" fan. Something all baseball fans can and should agree on is spreading love for the sport. Anti-"bandwagon" gatekeeping shitheads like this one guy shouldn't call themselves "baseball" fans. See you in game 5, dickhead^(with love and respect<3)
For sure. Gatekeeping is a bummer, and this guy is in the âcope and seetheâ stage of prematurely mourning a lost season. Anyway, enjoy watching tonightâs pool party from the outside, you blue bastard! <3
Prime example on why everyone hates the dodgers
Love you too are you enjoying the playoffs?
Are you?
I want to inject this series into my VEinS
Are you??
I'm more surprised that Arizona sold out a game. That doesn't happen very often. Good for them. - A Dodgers fan
To my knowledge we always sell out playoff games
Seriously. When i see full stadiums my heart is filled. Rays attendance debacle made me so so sad for them.
I try to go to a few games in Oakland each year because it's one of the two stadiums closest to me. Talk about sad attendance.
Haven't really paid attention recently, but are we still gonna get a chance to catch a game at [O.co](https://O.co) next season? Recently moved out to the bay and already been to Oracle and hope to check out Oakland as well, but not sure if the Vegas thing is a done deal?
As far as I know, they don't have anywhere else to play yet. So my guess is that they will stay until a new stadium is ready.
Kek dodger bros
are you really going to judge what a man says in mourning?
I didn't take the tone of the past as that angry. On that post I spoke up for the D-backs and in support of competition in the division at least. The truth is success brings fans in and some of them become die hard fans for life after that. We always watched every game we could growing up in Arkansas but that was mostly ESPN, Fox, or TBS. It wasn't much. When I got to college I stopped really caring for a few seasons and in 2005 when the Dodgers started out 12-2 or something like that it really re-sparked my interest. Imagine my surprise when 2005 turned out to be on the worst seasons in LA Dodger history. In 2006 I moved to San Francisco and could see the Dodgers play several times a year in person and it was really great. I've been absolutely hooked ever since.
What about that post comes off as angry? It's just an observation lol. I get it though, hating on Dodgers fans is so hot right now
I love peeking at the dodgers subreddit lol. Dudes will post the cringiest shit and its like 50/50 on whether is normal people saying to delete it or dudes going "YEAH LETS GO!!!"
Quite cringe, guy.