I say that a bit reluctantly.

Like I said offline, I wouldn’t mind the Angels losing … choking feels worse.

The Angels are the underdog to the Yankees, I think they can win, I hope they will win, but I won’t be suicidal if they don’t win.

The Bruins need a bowl game more than the Angels need a series win. The Angels are good and they have a bright future, they’ll get another one, I think.

Failing to get to a bowl game this year would be a setback for UCLA, IMO.

Without a doubt!

I love my Bruins far far more than any pro team, but this ain’t our year for either team. Winning against SC would feel fluky… I want us to beat them with a solid foundation, and I just don’t think we’re there yet.

Argh I’m really agonizing around choice 1 vs choice 2. I’ve rooted for the Dodgers since I was a little kid.

This question has got me thinking of another hypothetical situation: How much money would you “turn down” in exchange for a UCLA football championship? A UCLA basketball championship? (i.e. I would turn down “x” amount of dollars in exchange for a UCLA FB championship). I would guess we would get a lot of surprising answers here on BN!

I don’t have any hope for the Padres for another 10 years (though i will gladly be pleasantly surprised). I will still follow them, as I did in the long wait for the Chargers to get good again. Probably need to start spending more money to buy and retain quality players.

But how can you beat both UCLA football and basketball sucess?!?! Go Bruins!!!

would you rather have the Dodgers win the World Series or the Bruins win the Pac 10 (but not win the national title)?

My decision hinged on what I want more…the Angels winning the World Series, or the Dodgers choking in the playoffs.

I’m a lifelong Angels fan and hate the Dodgers, but if I were to pick choice 2 with the Dodgers choking, then it doesn’t really present an option where the Angels would win the World Series. So that’s why I picked choice 1. Furthermore, in picking choice 1, at least one of my favorite teams would be winning a championship. UCLA footballing winning at least 6 games (including U$C) and UCLA basketball finishing in the top-3 would be nice, but I’d rather take the sure World Series victory for the Angles.

Of course my answer would be different if the option for UCLA to win a championship was available. A UCLA championship trumps any other championship for any of my favorite teams.

No matter where my Bruins finish this year, I will find comfort knowing the two programs are led by excellent coaches who are most concerned with the “big picture”. It’s all about winning for my Halos.

Given the current state of the team, and the expected trajectory of development of the A’s young core of players, It is not a particularly hard choice.

The A’s have a excellent group of young (really young!) pitchers, and a number of young position players, some of whom may actually be accurately described as “young talent”. Exciting to think of how well the team may been down the road, but at the same time, I realize that they are not yet good enough to contend for a playoff spot (’09 or even in ’10).

Ask this question again in 2012, and I might have a tougher time coming to an answer.

F* $C.

F* the Phillies.

UCLA trumps any pro team in my book.

I would sacrifice just about anything short of a Lakers championship for even one UCLA win

UCLA >>> Dodgers/Broncos/Lakers/Avalanche/u$c*’s opponent/QuartzHillHS/Garmin/RadioShack – all rolled together.

Now, I would take a UCLA basketball/football championship over any of my bay area allengiances (moreso than a Giants WS, Niners Super Bowl, or Warriors title, which of course will never happen). So, if we’re talking one wins a title, the other doesn’t, I’d take UCLA, hands down. The way you phrased the question, I gotta take my Giants. It’s been a LOOOONG time since we last won the WS (i.e. never in San Francisco history).

Dodgers win, but UCLA’s Chase Utley is the goat for one game. I’ll take it.

I would love to see the Bruins do well, and the $c loss would be very painfull, but a chance to see one of my teams win a world title over a chance at 6 wins and a 2nd or 3rd class bowl game…I have to pick the championship. I missed the Angels last title as I was stationed overseas and would give almost anything to see it happen agin this year. Damn you Nestor for doing this to me. I am supposed to be getting ready for Game 1 with the Skanks, not agonizing over this. Thanks.

But it’s really close. I love the Dodgers, but I bleed UCLA true blue and gold. Tough, tough, question…but they way I look at it, UCLA football winning 6 games almost guarantees a bowl game, while a top 3 finish in basketball is a chance in the Dance. Those two things give UCLA a shot to win a championship now or soon, which would be AWESOME. With that being said, GO DODGERS!

Nuff said ;)
Not only would my team win, but i’d win a boat load in Vegas LOL

I love the dodgers, and I’ve been to more dodgers games than Bruin games this year, but:

Anything that includes making the people at SC suffer sometimes makes me happier than my own team winning.

I don’t handle the basketball team losing very well. I’m kinda used to the Dodgers losing and the football team being bad, but if I lose basketball I have no foundation left. I don’t think I can count on the Dodgers keeping me happy for the rest of my life like UCLA basketball does.

No matter how perfectly a top 3 finish or 6 wins set us up for the future, they’re still just setting up for the future, with no guarantee of a championship. While option 1 is less than optimal for the Bruins, it does guarantee some championship this year for one of my teams. And besides, fourth place in the Pac 10 in basketball still probably makes the tournament, and we can always go on a run.

I’ve been a big Oakland fan ever since I was a kid watching guys like Walt Weiss, Dave Stewart, Terry Steinbach, and Rickey Henderson sweeping those scrub Giants in the World Series (notice the Bash Brothers are omitted since their dirty ways have been one of the biggest sports disappointments ever, at least for me).

That said, I am an A’s fan, but I am a Bruin. UCLA is like a family. It’s part of who I am. My local pro baseball team is a team I love following and getting behind, but I’m not, and never will be, part of the organization. I’m not an Athletic. Never will be.

But I am and always will be a Bruin. No matter where I go, where I live, or what I do, I will always feel connected to my alma mater and our sports programs.

Probably why I ended up here and never got around to Athletics Nation (although it’s a fantastic blog).

Winning the World Series isn’t really applicable in 2009, so I’ll assume this is 2010. I would have chosen choice 2 if this involved a UCLA national championship in basketball or football (actually, I think a BCS bowl game would be enough here for me to choose it), but since this was not a choice, I will go with choice 1.

maybe its because my strongest tie is through my mom and im at smu. Honestly if you gave me the choice of even just seeing the Dodgers in the world series and not winning it, i still might choose that, being born in ’88, ive waited my whole life to see that.

Although this wasnt the easiest of decisions, my whole life growing up i thought I was going to be a bruin as well

I’m a SF Giants fan and I pick choice #2. Go Bruins!