These are a Few of My Favorite Teams

For quite some time now, I have had several favorite teams in MLB. In part this was due to my own moving around, since I am from Michigan, but lived in Boston from 1993-95, and New York City from 1997-99, as well as upstate New York from 2000-03. I grew up rooting for the Detroit Tigers. My interest in baseball peaked in 1984, because a.) I was 14, and b.) the Tigers roared off to a 35-5 start, and eventually won the World Series in five games. I had never pulled real strongly for any NL teams, though I was definitely pro-Dodgers when they beat the Yankees in the World Series in the strike marred 1981 season, in part because I recalled that those who were aware of such things in '78 seemed saddened by the Yankees second consecutive World Championship over these same Dodgers. In '82 I was rooting for the Cardinals over the Brewers, as I wanted to see a team that won with pitching, defense, and aggression on the basepaths beat a team that led the majors in home runs. (At the time I couldn't hit for crap, but I walked so much that I got to batted at the top of the order fairly routinely. I'm sure it didn't hurt that whenever I got on I tried to steal second and third base. I only recall being thrown out once, on an attempt at third.