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Non-Sharks Bay Area Sports Thread XXVIII

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Quid Pro Clowe said:
Let’s go Kings!
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With this being an all NoCal series, one thing I wonder about the Sharks fanbase is for the NBA fans in it, are there a sizeable amount of Kings fans? I know the Warriors are obviously #1, but what share of fans like the Kings the most? And are the Kings the 2nd most popular NBA team among Sharks fans?
 
LightningStorm said:
With this being an all NoCal series, one thing I wonder about the Sharks fanbase is for the NBA fans in it, are there a sizeable amount of Kings fans? I know the Warriors are obviously #1, but what share of fans like the Kings the most? And are the Kings the 2nd most popular NBA team among Sharks fans?
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I am only speaking for myself: It's baseball season or hockey season.

No time for boys in shorts putting balls in hoops, nor the snooze-a-thon NFL either. In both the NBA and the NFL I feel like there's just too much posing. No one's gonna throw one in your earhole for being a dumbass like in baseball. No one is going to try to relieve you of your teeth like in hockey when you do something particularly dangerous or egregious.

If the NBA considered putting boards up and getting rid of the ball going out of bounds, that'd be great. Let's just stop with the dribbling, or actually call traveling. Then I guess I want full contact so there's no whining about whether or not someone's hand or butt got touched. Then we need a player for each side that cannot leave the paint but can goaltend their own bucket, and raise that bucket a foot and a half so it's an actual challenge to put the ball into. Let the goaltender play on stilts, I'd pay to see that shit. Free throws are the dullest thing ever, replace with shorthanded all-you-can score for 1:00 type penalties, let's watch the shorthanded team try to play keep-a-way for a minute instead of one dude standing at a line throwing a ball in the same old hoop they've been throwing it into their whole lives. I feel like it'd be way more interesting if they tried to do this stuff on ice instead of a hardwood floor. Alternately, shag carpet might be fun, all that static discharge during contact. Think of all the rug burns. Anything to liven up a game of putting the ball in the hoop over and over, again and again, really.

At that point I might be interested in watching the NBA. If I'm going pay to watch (tv or in person) millionaires play children's games I need to be fully entertained.
 
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LightningStorm said:
With this being an all NoCal series, one thing I wonder about the Sharks fanbase is for the NBA fans in it, are there a sizeable amount of Kings fans? I know the Warriors are obviously #1, but what share of fans like the Kings the most? And are the Kings the 2nd most popular NBA team among Sharks fans?
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I would think they are.
 
LightningStorm said:
With this being an all NoCal series, one thing I wonder about the Sharks fanbase is for the NBA fans in it, are there a sizeable amount of Kings fans? I know the Warriors are obviously #1, but what share of fans like the Kings the most? And are the Kings the 2nd most popular NBA team among Sharks fans?
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I can’t imagine rooting for a division rival like the Kings. It’d be like cheering for the Lakers
 
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LightningStorm said:
I didn't mean if Warriors fans have the Kings as their 2nd favorite team. More that among Shark fans who watch the NBA, are the Kings the 2nd most popular team after the Warriors?
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It's tough to say. Obviously no way of really finding out, but if we're talking about Sharks fans who's #1 NBA team isn't the Warriors, there's probably a decent number of Lakers transplants in the Bay as well.
 
WTFetus said:
It's tough to say. Obviously no way of really finding out, but if we're talking about Sharks fans who's #1 NBA team isn't the Warriors, there's probably a decent number of Lakers transplants in the Bay as well.
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I thought about Laker transplants, though I was also thinking they'd be (NHL) Kings fans instead of Sharks ones.
 
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landshark said:
I am only speaking for myself: It's baseball season or hockey season.

No time for boys in shorts putting balls in hoops, nor the snooze-a-thon NFL either. In both the NBA and the NFL I feel like there's just too much posing. No one's gonna throw one in your earhole for being a dumbass like in baseball. No one is going to try to relieve you of your teeth like in hockey when you do something particularly dangerous or egregious.

If the NBA considered putting boards up and getting rid of the ball going out of bounds, that'd be great. Let's just stop with the dribbling, or actually call traveling. Then I guess I want full contact so there's no whining about whether or not someone's hand or butt got touched. Then we need a player for each side that cannot leave the paint but can goaltend their own bucket, and raise that bucket a foot and a half so it's an actual challenge to put the ball into. Let the goaltender play on stilts, I'd pay to see that shit. Free throws are the dullest thing ever, replace with shorthanded all-you-can score for 1:00 type penalties, let's watch the shorthanded team try to play keep-a-way for a minute instead of one dude standing at a line throwing a ball in the same old hoop they've been throwing it into their whole lives. I feel like it'd be way more interesting if they tried to do this stuff on ice instead of a hardwood floor. Alternately, shag carpet might be fun, all that static discharge during contact. Think of all the rug burns. Anything to liven up a game of putting the ball in the hoop over and over, again and again, really.

At that point I might be interested in watching the NBA. If I'm going pay to watch (tv or in person) millionaires play children's games I need to be fully entertained.
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you killed me at 'shag carpet might be fun' :laugh::laugh:
great post! reminds me of the englishman joseph thornton on passington monologues that nem used to have
 
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WTFetus said:
It's tough to say. Obviously no way of really finding out, but if we're talking about Sharks fans who's #1 NBA team isn't the Warriors, there's probably a decent number of Lakers transplants in the Bay as well.
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There’s also a lot of Sharks fans in the Sacramento area and further north that prefer the Kings to either of those teams.

It’s probably very blended amongst Sharks fans with a majority preferring the Warriors then some mix of those other two. The Clippers are an afterthought.
 
I'm loving ESPN going to bat for the Warriors over the Green suspension trying to make them out like they're a sympathetic entity because of it. lol
 
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What news to wake up to. Absolute effing cowards. Drop the news at 11pm the day they leave for a road trip so they don’t have to face angry fans. I don’t blame Oakland for holding its ground. I blame Fisher and Manfred and back to Selig too. And F the Giants for their role in the territorial rights crap that kept the A’s from being able to really try in SJ or Fremont.

I know most Sharks fans who follow baseball are Giants fans, but the A’s have been my second favorite team only to the Sharks my whole life. My dad grew up in Oakland and worked for the A’s before I was born. We used to take my grandmother before she passed. We’ve had three generations of A’s fans since the day they came to Oakland in the 60s.

I don’t know if they’re dead to me as of today or I can hang with them until they actually leave, but once they’re gone that’s it. If anyone has suggestions of who to root for next, I’m a free agent fan haha. Just know it will never be the Giants.
 
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NewMuzu24 said:
What news to wake up to. Absolute effing cowards. Drop the news at 11pm the day they leave for a road trip so they don’t have to face angry fans. I don’t blame Oakland for holding its ground. I blame Fisher and Manfred and back to Selig too. And F the Giants for their role in the territorial rights crap that kept the A’s from being able to really try in SJ or Fremont.

I know most Sharks fans who follow baseball are Giants fans, but the A’s have been my second favorite team only to the Sharks my whole life. My dad grew up in Oakland and worked for the A’s before I was born. We used to take my grandmother before she passed. We’ve had three generations of A’s fans since the day they came to Oakland in the 60s.

I don’t know if they’re dead to me as of today or I can hang with them until they actually leave, but once they’re gone that’s it. If anyone has suggestions of who to root for next, I’m a free agent fan haha. Just know it will never be the Giants.
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I feel exactly the same. This is sad.
 
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Doubling down on what Clowe Me would say and f*** Bud Selig man.....sell the team to Lacob and everything is different gahhhh
 
Pinkfloyd said:
I'm loving ESPN going to bat for the Warriors over the Green suspension trying to make them out like they're a sympathetic entity because of it. lol
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People acting like a grab is worth a kick are hilarious. You can’t lift your foot and stomp another player no matter the circumstances.

Then there’s the fact Sabonis doesn’t actually grab Green’s leg until after the stomp. Before that, Sabonis had fallen and was bracing his midsection for contact. His arms were in both sides of Green’s foot, but he wasn’t even really impeding his movement. Green is an opportunist and this time it cost his team.
 
Quid Pro Clowe said:
People acting like a grab is worth a kick are hilarious. You can’t lift your foot and stomp another player no matter the circumstances.

Then there’s the fact Sabonis doesn’t actually grab Green’s leg until after the stomp. Before that, Sabonis had fallen and was bracing his midsection for contact. His arms were in both sides of Green’s foot, but he wasn’t even really impeding his movement. Green is an opportunist and this time it cost his team.
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I'm alright with different interpretations of what went on in that incident but it's just funny that the media now wants to make it out like the league has it out for Golden State and wants the Kings to win. The Kings. The Sacramento Kings. I laugh at the thought of the NBA giving two shits about the Sacramento Kings. lol
 
Pinkfloyd said:
I'm alright with different interpretations of what went on in that incident but it's just funny that the media now wants to make it out like the league has it out for Golden State and wants the Kings to win. The Kings. The Sacramento Kings. I laugh at the thought of the NBA giving two shits about the Sacramento Kings. lol
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Well the beam is a place of worship. Maybe we’ve converted the league lol.

LadyStanley said:
Las Vegas Valley has already subsided from ground water pumping.
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Don’t mind me, just being sad.
 
NewMuzu24 said:
What news to wake up to. Absolute effing cowards. Drop the news at 11pm the day they leave for a road trip so they don’t have to face angry fans. I don’t blame Oakland for holding its ground. I blame Fisher and Manfred and back to Selig too. And F the Giants for their role in the territorial rights crap that kept the A’s from being able to really try in SJ or Fremont.

I know most Sharks fans who follow baseball are Giants fans, but the A’s have been my second favorite team only to the Sharks my whole life. My dad grew up in Oakland and worked for the A’s before I was born. We used to take my grandmother before she passed. We’ve had three generations of A’s fans since the day they came to Oakland in the 60s.

I don’t know if they’re dead to me as of today or I can hang with them until they actually leave, but once they’re gone that’s it. If anyone has suggestions of who to root for next, I’m a free agent fan haha. Just know it will never be the Giants.
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I can tell you this is 100% bullshit.

I see more people walking around in A's swag in San Jose than I ever did than Giants even during their even year dynasty.

The Giants claiming the south bay as "their territory" can and should have been challenged in court.
 
Bizz said:
I can tell you this is 100% bullshit.

I see more people walking around in A's swag in San Jose than I ever did than Giants even during their even year dynasty.

The Giants claiming the south bay as "their territory" can and should have been challenged in court.
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Interesting. I always saw more Giants stuff in the South Bay but I don't live there now. The one year I did all my colleagues were Giants fans. I think I've always had that little brother complex as an A's fan and I grew up in the East Bay where it felt like most folks were Giants fans too, despite being much closer to Oakland.
 
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LadyStanley said:
www.8newsnow.com

A’s have agreement to play at Las Vegas Ballpark

The Las Vegas A’s will have a temporary home in southern Nevada ahead of the construction of a billion-dollar baseball stadium west of the Las Vegas Strip, Dave Kaval, president of the Athlet…
www.8newsnow.com www.8newsnow.com

Sounds like this is the last season in Oakland.
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Well the coliseum lease expires after next season, so that can’t be possible unless the A’s decide to violate their lease.
 
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