1.) Guardians- I hate them with every fiber of my being. The amount of goofy looking white kid pitchers that come through their system that turn out to be elite starters is sickening. Then every one of their great players just has a jerky smug face— Manny, Thome, Hafner, Ramirez, Naylor. Killed me to see Fryman end up there….he was one of my favorites.
2.) Twins- What makes me the most upset about the Twins is that they rarely try to be good from an organizational stand point. Yet somehow they’re always in the playoff hunt. Every Twins era has a replacement level player that absolutely destroys us but is garbage against everyone else. Nick Punto is the poster boy for this. At least the Guardians players that beat up on us were elite players like Thome and Jose Ramirez.
3.) White Sox- They’re just like a drug addict cousin who is always getting into trouble and has no future….yet you’re stuck being guilted into feeling sorry for him at family functions. As a kid, having to get my baseball fix on TV by watching Hawk Harrelson call Sox games on WGN was torturous.
4.) Royals- As irritating as their little run was and as much as guys like Mike Sweeney, Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez and now Bobby Witt Jr destroy us…..I can sympathize with how terrible they typically have been for my entire lifetime outside of about 5 years.