How do you know a rivalry is bitter? When one fan base yells at the young daughter of an opposing teams' player and heckles her father to the point where she cries. It's tough out there in the world of the National League West.
Rivaled by perhaps only the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry — though this year is proving to be decidedly one-sided between those two teams to this point — the bitter feud between the Giants and Dodgers is the beef in question, here, and Brandon Crawford's daughter got the brunt of it. According to Jalynne Crawford, the wife of longtime Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, Dodgers fans were "yelling toward us, dropping F-bombs, and saying Crawford sucks Brandon sucks every at bat!" to the point where it broke the heart of their young daughter, Jaydyn.
Of course, there may have been no way that the Dodgers hecklers in question knew that this was Brandon Crawford's daughter, and there's no way to know whether or not the fans were pointing their jeers in Jalynne and Jaydyn's direction or just screaming in general. But do we find it hard to imagine a cursing, passionate fan base saying that Crawford, who they've come quite familiar with over the past decade, was ruthlessly booing and insulting him? Not in the slightest.
Fortunately, though the Giants lost, Crawford got his revenge with an absolute bomb off of Trevor Bauer.
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