Upon consideration, from being in the MLB threads, I can think of posters who are loyal to the Dodgers, Padres, Giants, D-Backs, Cardinals, Cubs, Reds, Pirates, Nats, Yankees, Red Sox, and Indians. Those are the ones I know for sure, anyway; I am undoubtedly forgetting folks. And thus, this thread.
Multiple choice poll, here. Claims your team(s)! Which do you follow and root for? Feel free to discuss below, particularly if your vote goes to more than one team.
(Poll coming up shortly.)
Mets. Inherited the recessive Brooklyn Dodgers gene from both parents.
I was at Citi Field last weekend, sitting in a section with a bunch of loud and obnoxious Nationals fans, which goes to show that anything can happen in baseball.
Why is poll multiple choice? I’m sorry, but that’s just wrong.
I picked the Mets, by the way.
Just remember this is a public poll before you vote for the stinkin’ Yankees.
Dodgers! It’s weird that the team has money now, but weird in a good way. I have, unfortunatly been too burried in work to pay close attention to what has been happening this April, but from the game recaps I have read that might be a good thing.
I am looking forward to the summer though when my time will be more my own again and I can actually stay up to watch a game or two.
Red Sex? 
I know there are a couple other Cardinals fans on the board. C’mon, fellas, represent!
My baseball is more flexible then any other sport. When I lived in Colorado I was a Rockies fan and liked Detroit. When I went to Michigan I became a Tigers fan, and like the Rockies.
When I was a lad, and just discovering baseball, the Yankees had Mantle and Maris. How can I not love the Yankees?
I knew there were a number of folks with non-conflicting loyalties to multiple teams (unlike silenus, who has loyalties to teams in the same division, which is just some sort of illness). I count myself among them, having developed a love for the Dodgers from childhood and a love for the Indians through marriage. On the off chance they ever met in the World Series, I don’t think I could root against the Boys in Blue, but realistically, their paths don’t cross, and I’m just as enthusiastic about both teams.
I was at the stadium last night. I would suggest that the last week is reason to have hope.
Huh. I did make an intentional “error” in my list, but that wasn’t it. Whoops. 
Oakland is actually the Athletics. If it’s not that I’m missing it.
Nah. Just a refusal to acknowledge that there is more than one team dubbed Los Angeles.
I am not worried yet, but people seem frustrated so I am guessing I would be right now too if I was actually watching games instead of reading box scores and recaps.
It is nice to see that the boys in blue are finally scoring runs with those men they are putting on base. It’s also nice to see that the Nick Punto trade seems to be paying off in spades and I am *very *glad that they went into the season with 7 solid starters, because they would be in deep trouble right now if they hadn’t.
I just wish Kemp would remember how to hit for power, but even with that I wasn’t really expecting that from him this soon, shoulder injuries take a while to recover from and at least he is getting hits again rather than ground out after ground out.
I am excited.
I just wish they’d go back to being called “California” and stop all this silly naming nonsense with the multiple cities.
Early results:
NL West
6 fans
NL Central
6 fans
NL East
8 fans
AL West
5 fans
AL Central
6 fans
AL East
10 fans
The Giants, of course.
I also like the A’s to do well, as long as they’re not playing San Francisco.
Ehh, I’ve got Rockies season tickets and watch many more of their games then the dodgers but I’m still a Dodgers fan. It’s very entertaining to when I show up in all my Dodgers gear 9-10 times a season and the attendants that know me start to heckle.
I’m a Giants fan through and through. I’m not displeased when the A’s do well, but I pretty much don’t care about anyone but the Giants.
They could be either the California Angels or the Anaheim Angels, as far as I’m concerned. They are NOT in Los Angeles.
When I was growing up in Florida, my mom was a big Cubs fan (inherited from her mom). When I was little, I watched many games on WGN, and I was a big fan of Mark Grace. (I thought his eye black was the shit.) And I presently live on the north side of Chicago, and have had the opportunity to take the 152 or the Red Line to a handful of games at Wrigley. That makes me a Cubs fan.
When I was nine, my dad took me to the sixth-ever Devil Rays game at Tropicana Field and my first-ever major league game, where I watched the Devil Rays shut out the White Sox 5-0. My parents were divorced, and my dad only got to see me every other weekend. Seeing Devil Rays games was a fun thing we could do together, since there was finally a major league team in Tampa Bay, and we usually saw seven or so games a year until I went to Chicago for college in 2006. In 2008, I was in college and watching the Rays win the ALCS on TV, and my dad promptly called me and we celebrated their win, 1200 miles apart, after a solid decade of mediocrity. I didn’t watch the Devil Rays be awful for ten years just to give up calling myself a Rays fan because I moved away. So I’m still a Rays fan.
If this is wrong, I don’t think I want to be right. Year-round interleague aside, the Cubs and Rays haven’t exactly played each other frequently. I don’t think dual allegiances is really a problem in sports fandom, unless you’re on both sides of some big rivalry like Yankees/Red Sox.
In fairness, “Los Angeles Angels” is actually the original name of the franchise.
I always liked “Anaheim Angels” though, much more so than “California,” and I think their new name’s stupid. It’d be interesting to put together a list of teams that are not actually located in the cities they are named after, but I can’t think of any baseball teams except the Angels that’s true of anymore. Baseball teams generally have been moving back downtown. Of course, the Tampa Bay Rays are not actually located in Tampa Bay, since that is a body of water.
At the top of the list would be two NFL teams, the New York Jets and New York Giants, neither of whom are even in the State of New York, much less the city.