Who I am rooting for in the 08 World Series

Let's go through the two teams and their pros and cons.

Tampa Bay Rays

Reasons for:

• confident young bunch who play the game fundamentally well despite the odds
• management stuck to a plan and stayed the course
• low payroll

Reasons against:

• bandwagon fans
• stupid cowbell

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/66662-tampa-bay-rays-new-baseball-fans-quickly-vault-themselves-into-annoying-elite

http://deadspin.com/5066606/no-more-cowbell-the-wretchedness-of-tampa-bays-fledgling-fanbase

It was not so long ago that the words Devil Rays Fans were an oxymoron although they did put their fans through a lot.

Philadelphia

Reason Against :

• The fans there boo Santa Claus

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=nfl&id=1980880

Reasons for :

• My heart bled with Phillies fans when Joe Carter stuck it to them in 1993

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/43

• The fans don't leave the bandwagon but they boo in there
• My dad went to school there and was even in town for Gene Mauch collapse .

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/10/01/bp.collapses/index.html

• Mitch Williams put it all behind him

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_60/ai_69057356