It’s been a pretty good time to be a Giants fan in the near-quarter century since they moved to 24 Willie Mays Plaza, and the three pennants from the 2010s will fly forever.
I’ve befriended several Mets fans from my time on the East Coast and through social media, and there’s no way to capture all of the moments. But just naming a few — mascots flipping off fans, players fighting each other in the dugout only to later claim they were instead reacting to a rat, a general manager getting caught on a hot mic bashing the commissioner — can help.
The Giants, less than a decade after winning their third world championship in five years, are a punchline to the baseball world.1) A major market: The Bay Area is one of four markets with two MLB teams and is in the top 10 for television market size by number of homes. 4) Failure to come through with that superstar: The harsher the failure, the more other teams’ fans will experience schadenfreude.