So, I'm just back from the Bay Area (where I spent a great Saturday afternoon at SBC Park watching the Giants v. Marlins) -- and reading the paper Sunday morning, saw this question posed: "Who's Hunkier: Giants vs. A's".

You can read the article and responses here.

Gotta hand it to the Chronicle -- seems one guy they interviewed is gay -- his answer: "I personally think Tim Hudson is very attractive. On the other side of the bay? My sources say J.T. Snow is pretty (it's the eyes), but otherwise, no one else comes close."

... and some nice pics to accompany the article
Hudson and Zito
JT Snow's pretty eyes.

How many hot Giants are there? I guess I'd know if ESPN would focus their cameras on someone other than Barry.

A's all the way. Zito, Chavez, Menechino, Mecir, Durazo.......Mmmm.. Too bad papi Ramon Hernandez is no longer behind the plate.

And the A's uniforms hug all the right places even if the color scheme sometimes makes my eyes hurt. Gray uniforms with white shoes? Eek!

[ May 04, 2004, 03:17 PM: Message edited by: FeverDog ]

Absolutely, FeverDog! The A's are the best looking team in baseball. You forgot to mention Crosby and my favorite, Marco Scutaro. Please - the Giants don't even come close!!!

You're forgetting the muscular Eric Byrnes and the unbelievable sexy Mark Mulder. Mulder is one of the sexiest pitchers in baseball, hands down.

If the Giants had not called up the new hottie Dallimore they would indeed be bankrupt in the looks department.The A's are the bay area beauties. However, the hottest lineup in baseball has to be the Texas Rangers-Young,Blalock,Fullmer,Dellucci,Nix and Teixeira.....a full stable o' studs....Yum Yum eek!

The A's win! I haven't seen a bigger bunch of studs well since the Kentucky Derby wink

I'm a little partial to Mark Mulder...(GO STATE!)

I am glad that you mentioned Dellucci. I was watching the Rangers game the other night, and I was mesmerized by tight, white pants. On a scale of one to ten (ten being Drew Brees and Jean-Claude Van Damme) his butt ranks an eight.

Finally got a good look at Scutaro tonight, and, eh, I could take him or leave him. However, Chad Bradford's got that Randy Woofy goatee thing working well.

Who cares? I could look at Barry all day.

I'm bias here so I'll have to say the Athletics. I like the answer from one of the people, calling them the ChippenA's. But in all fairness, J.T. Snow makes a Giants game worthwhile. Still, with studs like Zito, Mulder, and Chavez, the A's all the way!

The A's win hands-down -- at least in the Bay Area. Far hotter than the Giants, especially since they lost Aurilia. But the hunkiest team award, IMHO, still goes to the Angels. Except for Eckstein and Andersen, they're the biggest beefiest bunch in MLB. (If I didn't know any better, I'd swear Mike Scoscia -- a pretty beefy boy himself -- had a thing for musclebears.)

Latest addition to "the times are achangin'" files is the fact a major paper asked people about the hunkiness of male athletes. For a long time, mainstream media has been open about attractiveness being a part of marketing women's sports but merely whispered about the same in men's sports.

~Adam

The A's, definitely, are the hottest. (See my other posting about Scutaro being the new Tino Martinez.) Now if they would just hire Gabey from the BoSox and put out their own nude calendar a la that French rugby team...

(sigh)

A guy can dream, can't he?

A couple of years ago, it would have been the Giants -- when they had JT Snow, Jeff Kent, Rich Aurilia and Bill Mueller across the infield. Now, the Giants just have JT, and the A's have all the eye candy, hands down, no questions asked, no holds barred. (And I'd love to know what the clubhouses' reaction was to that SFChronicle survey. A lot of eye rolling, I'm guessing.)

Anyway. Mark? Marco? Call me!

The Angels are a great-looking team (I loves me my bears), but I have to admit the Red Sox are the hottest group of men in an MLB locker room.

And I admit the Yankees are lacking in the looks department. Vasquez is a cutie, and I dig Posada's thick legs and big ol' catcher's butt, but that's about it. Giambi ain't bad but he looked better with long greasy hair and a goat, and, despite a butt firm enough to bounce a quarter off of, I never thought Jeter was much to look at. (Maybe it's the chipmunk cheeks.) Bubba's got potential, but he's too much of a chicken for my taste.

(Speaking of Posada, a buddy thinks he looks like The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I admit I don't completely disagree with him.)

I think Posada looks like a cross between Ralph Macchio and Topo Gigio