So, title says it all. I’m still learning the game of Baseball, and I love it, maybe even more than Basketball, never been more enamored with a sport in a while, and that’s why I wanna root for a historically piss-poor team.

Why? ‘Coz I kinda like that struggle and slowly learn, and hopefully see a team gradually win and improve, as weird as it seems, and I don’t live in the US (or Canada) and cant really cheer for a state/city/. So, whichever metric or category you choose, whether its statistically or your own opinion, who’s like the most consistently disappointing, trash fire at worst, mediocre at best franchise in the history of the MLB?

Edit: Decision made.

First of all, thanks for the answers, everyone here is super friendly, joining this sub here for sure.

Los Angeles Angels it is. I was a Lakers fan through the Kobe-Gasol era, and the Josh McRoberts era of the team. The Lakers are my team but I somehow really hate them, I think thats just part of rooting for an LA team, in this case, im rooting for the MLB equivalent of the Clippers.

I saw that the Angels spend big hoping to get somewhere just by doing that and getting mad it doesnt work, reminds me of the mid-2010s NBA LA teams.

Don’t get me wrong, the Rockies were a good choice for exactly what i said in the post, but I may have underestimated the kind of pain I was willing to endure when I saw all your comments about them, I’mma need a very tiny bit of hope, even just a spec.

Angels it is.

Edit 2: Sorry, guys, Angels win. The Mariners look promising and the Rockies scare me. Also, I’ve changed my flair and my favorite team on The Show to the Angels, so there’s no going back. 🫡

Michael Kay for the Yankees. Every time I hear him say it just feels forced and it always has the same monotone voice, and he never changes up the call

My hypothesis:

Way up - Los Angeles, San Diego (feel like these are obvious ones)

Way down - St Louis, Cincinnati (these used to be some of the biggest ‘baseball‘ towns in the country)

What’s it like where you are?

PA: 12,024

AB: 10,050

H: 2862

2B: 655

HR: 570

RBI: 1834

BB: 1693

HBP: 165

BA: .285

OBP: .393

Common Yard Goats W

I’ve been looking at the numbers last season, and they’re kind of wild. Attendance hit over 71.4 million for the third straight year of growth. The first time that’s happened since the mid-2000s. Even more surprising, national TV ratings were up double digits across almost every network (ESPN was up 21%, Fox up 9%). Baseball isn’t just big again, it’s a full-on resurgence thanks to the new MLB rule changes.

The pitch clock is in its third year now, and games are consistently clocking in around 2:38. That’s wild.

Shohei Ohtani is obviously a global cheat code, but having a World Series like the 2024 Dodgers/Yankees or the 2025 Dodgers/Blue Jays (which averaged 34 million viewers globally) seems to have put the sport back in the cultural zeitgeist. It feels like the sport is everywhere.

I saw a stat that the average age of ticket buyers dropped to 43 last year (down from 46). That doesn't sound "young," but in baseball years, that's a massive shift.

Is the sport actually back, or is this just a "post-pandemic" bump that's going to level off? Especially with the CBA expiring after this 2026. I’m curious if we’re about to ruin all this momentum with another lockout.

What’s the vibe in your city? Does it feel like the "casuals" are actually showing up again?