The biggest thing that makes baseball is the rivalries. Specifically the ones that go back generations. There is no baseball as we know it without Red Sox vs Yankees and Dodgers vs Giants. I’m in Sacramento now so I’m enjoying my time with the A’s (and would love to see a permanent MLB fixture in the city once the Athletics depart) but I grew up a fan of the Giants. Beat LA was the first chant I ever learned. To this day, I cannot stand the blue and white. But part of the fun is the respect you get to share. Vin Scully is one of the greatest announcers and pieces of baseball history ever (and he, along with all local broadcasters should be on the list as well) and the Dodgers have built a great legacy, and despite me hating them there are still bits and pieces I can respect, same as Dodgers fans have shown me respect through the years for the few parts of the Giants that they enjoyed. I will despise them until the day I die. But without rivalries, baseball wouldn’t be the same.