Anyone else fans of a team

[ChoralScholar]

located in a place they don't live, and have never lived? Why?

Around here, everyone is a Cardinals fan.

I personally am an A's fan. I've never even been to Oakland, but I love those A's....

[GOPFighter]

1. Yeah, I'm an Indians fan...

...I grew up in N. Indiana and now live in Washington DC. I've never lived in Cleveland, or near it.

In my town everyone was a White Sox, or Tigers fan (with a few Cubs and Yankee fans thrown in). Being a contrarian from a young age I chose the Indians (and let that be a lesson to all you contrarians!).

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Dodgers

...since 1965. I've always lived in central Kollyforniya, in Giants/A's country. Can't even get LA on the radio here, so it's the audio stream from mlb.com.

Can anyone explain why they're a fan of a particular team? I can't, any more than I can explain why I love a particular woman.

[kaitykaity]

3. Live in Portland, OR. No MLB here.

Closest team to me is Seattle (170 miles).

[Spirochete]

7. I was hoping

Portland would get the Expos, so I'd have two teams to follow - one in each league.

[kaitykaity]

8. You, me. So many people wanted that..

Everybody but Governor K. I could have cried when he
turned down the tribes' offer to underwrite a stadium
in return for building a casino in Portland.

[Maestro]

4. The A's?

Okay, well I'm a Rangers fan and live about 25 mintues from the Ballpark so I can see we are going to have problems here. ;)

[pres2032]

5. Marlins

i don't live in Florida and the only times i've seen them play were in Philadelphia.

[CubsFan1982]

6. Well, I don't live IN Chicago...

I'm 90 miles away in Illinois, so maybe that counts, maybe not.

[Dave Sund]

9. I'm a Mariners fan

When I first started really following baseball, I was a big fan of Ken Griffey, Jr., Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, and (later on) A-Rod, so, naturally, I became a Mariner fan. Got caught up in the 1995 pennant chase.

[kaitykaity]

10. Ah, the magical season that saved baseball in Seattle.

And then there was Soho and Cora. Remember 19-year-old
Alex consoling Joey Cora after we lost the ALCS? (Edgar's
double kind of goes without saying, you know?)

I became a Mariner fan in '94, the lockout year, but it
was right around that time. Fun.

[Gemini Cat]

11. I grew up on the Mets and Reds, especially the Reds

but it's been the SF Giants for the last few years.
I visited SF once when I was 13, but I've always lived elsewhere.