In your opinion, what is the biggest baseball rivalry after the yanks red sox?

Question

In your opinion, what is the biggest baseball rivalry after the yanks red sox?

Answer 1

Dodgers and Giants......there has been some crazy fights back in the day....the guy hitting the player in the head with the bat I dont know there names....but i think that is number 2

Answer 2

After the Sox/Yankees it has to be Cubs/Cardinals...and to C.S. who said the Sox/Yankees rivalry is the third biggest and was gone for 80 years, you might want to start following baseball because that rivalry never slept for 2 years let alone 80...that is probably one of the dumbest comments I have seen in a long time.

Answer 3

Toss up between the Cubs/Cardinals and the Dodgers/Giants.

Since I am a Red Sox fan I'll let those fans debate it.

Answer 4

Let's see, Rivalry that was big in the 20s, then slept for 80 years and was rekindled as a result of a book in the new millennium.  Comeon.

Cardinals and Cubs fight it out every year and always have a much bigger rivalry than the recent flair up of the Yankees vs. Red Sox.

The biggest rivalaries in baseball (when we turn off the EASTERN Sports Network) are:

1. Cubs vs. Cardinals

2. Mets vs. Phillies

3. New York vs. Boston

4. Dodgers vs. Giants

5. New York vs. Baltimore

6. Braves vs. Florida (its about as new as the New York Boston, but has been really good in turns of games and struggles against each other).

Answer 5

Phillies and Mets

Answer 6

Dodgers/Giants, although you almost never hear about it outside of California due to ESPN's hyping up of the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry.

The Dodgers and Giants both came to California together (there was some stipulation that the Dodgers couldn't move to LA unless some other team came to Calif with them. They brought their rivalry with them from New York. And the Northern Cal/Southern Cal rivalry and culture differences between the two areas make the rivalry that much more intense.

Unfortunately the rivary sometimes gets too intense. Back in 2003, there was an argument that led to a shooting in the Dodger's Stadium parking lot between Giants and Dodger fans.

Answer 7

For me personally, my other rivalry is the Dodgers/Angels.

I cannot stand those stinking Angels.

Answer 8

no question ...... Giants and Dodgers.  to the guy who said the Dodgers and the Angels, get real. the Giants and the Dodgers have about 600 more years of history playing each other than the Dodgers and the Angels have.  on top of that, the Dodgers and the Angels are HARDLY a rivalry, the Angels freakin' OWN the Dodgers.

Answer 9

CUBS vs. CARDS without a doubt. Thats real baseball, not that JV game they play in the AL

Answer 10

The Cardinals and the Cubs are the only other rivalry that even deserves to be mentioned in the same conversation as Red Sox/Yankees.

For the record: Cross-town rivalries like Cubs-White Sox or Dodger-Angels are not rivalries. A rivalry is when the two teams battle all season long for the same play-off spots.

Dodgers/Giants is the only other rivalry that I would even consider a legitimate, long-term rivalry. It was at least as big of a rivalry as Sox/Yankees when they were both in New York--probably bigger. I even think it stayed relevant during the Baseball glory years of the 60's. I don't think it means a t**d today.

Other than those three, there are no rivalries at all in baseball. A couple teams being competetive and battling for positions for a few years doesn't equal a rivalry. A rivalry in baseball means you grow up learning to hate the other team from your grandparents.

Who is the friggen idiot who said the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry "slept for 80 years." Quit trying to parade your incredible ignorance of baseball as knowledge. The past few years isn't even what I would view as the high point of the rivalry--that would be the 70's. We didn't have 24 hour sports to hype everything back then, but if you lived through those years as a fan, you remember it all vividly. Back then, before free agency, teams were more or less in tact for years at a time and that made the players even more invested in the rivalry.

edit: I might be wrong in dismissing the Dogers/Giants rivalry. I tend to think a team like the Dodgers doesn't have a crazed enough fan base to support  a decent rivalry, but I will concede to a possible East Coast predjudice against California.

Answer 11

As laid back as they seem to be in California, the Dodgers/Giants is a very intense rivalry. Two former New York bases teams that moved out west when their fans moved with them. I would say this rivalry is actually a longer standing one than Yanks/Sox. Yanks/Sox have always had a rivalry, however, with the Red Sox success over the past 5 years, the media has really hyped this rivalry.  

Answer 12

Cubs/Cardinals.

Actually, I think if both teams stay good for a while that the Cubs and Brewers could develop into a pretty good rivalry. The cities are so close together and it seems like interest is building among Brewer fans, and I'm starting to see a little bit of edginess between the teams when they play each other.

Answer 13

Cardinals and Cubs

Answer 14

Cubs and Cards