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Jays or Threshers: Who's Your Team?

This time of year, Clearwater and Dunedin take their friendly rivalry to the baseball field. Tell us which team you support for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Saturday's Threshers-Jays game!

 

Threshers vs. D-Jays: It’s a hometown rivalry as old as time — or at least it’s been brewing for several decades.

But with towns and teams that bump up against each other, the city limits don’t always delineate the Jays fans from the Threshers.

It can be difficult to predict who will fall on which side when you look at which Minor League team has a longer history in each town (Clearwater since 1985, Dunedin since 1990), which draws more fans (Clearwater with 173,618 fans for the 2011 season), or which has the better team (the Dunedin Blue Jays took the North Division Florida State League title last year).

Are you a longtime Dunedin resident who wears a red Threshers cap, or maybe a Clearwater resident who sports the bird and maple leaf?

Which team do you cheer for? Tell us why in the comments! We'll randomly reward one commenter with a pair of tickets to the Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Clearwater Threshers game this Saturday night at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium.

* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. * To enter, post a comment on this story. * All entries must be received by May 10, 2012, 6:00pm Eastern Time. * You may enter once. * 1 winner will be selected in a random drawing. * One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive two (2) Dunedin Blue Jays game tickets. * Click here for complete Official Rules.

  • Which local minor league team do you support?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Clearwater Threshers
        14 (50%)
    • Dunedin Blue Jays
        14 (50%)
    Total votes: 28
  • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: Dunedin Blue Jays, Hometown rivalry, Minor league baseball, and clearwater threshers

Anton Cavalone

2:28 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012

DUNEDIN • AL East, baby . .! . .

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Janice Miller

9:19 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012

Gotta support the D-Jays @ the home field!

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Mickey Howard

8:03 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I live in Dunedin, and while we like the Jays, we attend many more Threshers games. Much nicer stadium! Go Threshers!

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Monty Seidler

1:30 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Let's see...I moved from the DC Metro area, Nationals season ticket holder, all time fave team Cards...my home is now Dunedin....uh....GO D-JAYS! :)

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Daniel Kimball

4:23 pm on Thursday, May 10, 2012

Support all minor league baseball. love the fact that both teams are home very seldom on the same night but got to cheer for the jays as have seen more future MLBs in Dunedin

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Emily Seawell

9:08 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Thanks for commenting, everyone! Monty Seidler won the pair of tickets to Saturday's Jays-Threshers game in our random drawing. Maybe he'll get to see new Blue Jays signee Vladimir Guererro! (Here's a link to the story on MLB.com: http://patch.com/A-tlk9)

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Monty Seidler

10:12 am on Monday, September 17, 2012

Uh, is this a misplaced comment or did I miss something? I do believe a block on ad links should be inserted in comments. It's fairly simple to execute!

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Jason Bartolone

10:48 am on Monday, September 17, 2012

We've removed the comment, Monty. Thanks for pointing it out.

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