Power Ranking All 30 MLB Fanbases by Cockiness Heading into 2013

Everyone, at one point or another, gets cocky. It happens to the best of us.

Whether we just got a promotion, are winning big at a casino, just had the girl (or guy) of our dreams say yes when we asked the big question or something else, there comes a point in everyone's lives (hopefully more than once) where we can't help but feel like we are on top of the world.

Other times, that bravado is transferred onto the sports teams we love.

Their success on the field becomes our own, and we can't help but stick out our chests and scream at the top of our lungs "That's right, MY TEAM just won it all, baby!"

It happens in every sport, from the college ranks to the pros.

And baseball fans are no different than anyone else.

Personally, I am a member of one of the most cocky, arrogant, overbearing fanbases in all of baseball—I'm a Yankees fan.

That badge of bravado is something many of us wear with pride.

For fans of other teams, it's a label they'd sooner forget about.

Let's take a look at the cockiest, most arrogant fans in the game.

*Keep in mind, this is all in good fun. No personal attacks are meant by anything in the slides that follow. Take it all with a grain of salt, folks.

30. Houston Astros

Texans might be known for being brash and bold, but that's simply not the case when it comes to the newest members of the American League, the Houston Astros.

Astros fans are a passionate bunch, but when Jed Lowrie is the main attraction—and most dangerous player with a bat in his hands—on the team, it's essentially impossible to stick your chest out and wax poetic about how good your hometown team is.

29. Tampa Bay Rays

While the Rays contend for the AL East crown and a playoff berth on a yearly basis, fans continue to be no-shows at Tropicana Field.

For the second straight season, the Rays averaged fewer than 20,000 fans per home game, finishing dead last in all of baseball last season with a meager average of 19,255 fans per game.

Those fans who do show up to the games certainly have every right to be cocky—not only is their team a perennial contender on a shoestring budget, but the Rays continue to pump out quality pitchers at breakneck speed.

But yet we hear nary a sound emanating from the Trop.

28. Miami Marlins

If Jeffrey Loria thought Marlins fans were difficult to deal with last year, he's in for a treat in 2013.

After fleecing the taxpayers to pay for a shiny new stadium, Loria blew the entire team up, trading almost everyone with any value to the Toronto Blue Jays for Yunel Escobar and a handful of prospects.

Marlins fans were angry after former manager Ozzie Guillen made pro-Fidel Castro remarks last year; now they're just angry.

It's pretty difficult to be cocky when you have Giancarlo Stanton and a bunch of mediocre players who are borderline major leaguers.

27. Minnesota Twins

Twins fans are certainly supportive of their team and polite enough, but you wonder how much of that is natural—and how much is a natural reaction to the fact that it's not seven-below outside, with blustery winds and snow falling on the ground.

Joe Mauer's presence will always give Twins fans hope that a contending team is just around the corner, but even the most ardent supporters of the team are pretty realistic when it comes to the team's current chances of returning to their former glory.

26. Milwaukee Brewers

Cheering for one of the most potent lineups in baseball, Brewers fans are some of the most passionate and enthusiastic around.

From the sausage races at Miller Park to a perennial MVP candidate in Ryan Braun, there's plenty to cheer for and boast about when it comes to the Brewers.

But these fans will come out to the park for virtually anything, even when their favorite team isn't playing.

Just ask the Cleveland Indians, who played in front of some of its biggest crowds of the 2007 season when the Tribe was forced to use Miller Park as it's "home stadium," after watching a major snowstorm make Jacobs Field in Cleveland unplayable.

25. Cincinnati Reds

Cincinnati might not draw record-breaking numbers in attendance, but Reds fans are certainly passionate about their baseball team.

How could they not be?

With studs like Joey Votto, Aroldis Chapman and Johnny Cueto leading the way, Cincinnati finds itself in the thick of the pennant race each and every season.

It'd be easy for Reds fans to be cocky and arrogant—but they aren't.

24. Seattle Mariners

Every fifth day, Seattle fans get cocky, and rightfully so.

We'd all be cocky and arrogant if our favorite team was trotting Felix Hernandez out to the mound.

As for the rest of the time, well...not so much.

Amazingly enough, it wasn't so long ago that the Mariners were setting new major league records for most victories in the regular season.

Now, a .500 record is something to get excited about in the Emerald City.

It's hard to be overly cocky about that.

23. Oakland A's

When you are spending your hard-earned cash on team-colored Luchador masks and try to justify the expense, nobody will question your allegiance to your favorite team.

It's really more of an undying belief in GM Billy Beane's ability to put together a competitive team than cockiness, but Oakland has some passionate fans.

But those fans certainly don't come out to the ballpark in droves to support the club, as Oakland has failed to finish above 26th in attendance since 2005.

22. Arizona Diamondbacks

When their team is coming off of a World Series win, Arizona fans can get arrogant.

But with those titles are few and far between: There's only one, to be exact—more than a decade ago—and there hasn't been much bravado coming from the stands out in Phoenix.

21. San Diego Padres

You can't blame fans of the Padres for choosing to enter Petco Park under the cover of fog—the team has certainly had better days than what we've seen on the field recently.

While GM Josh Byrnes has things moving in the right direction, there's no reason for Padres fans to be pounding their chests and screaming from the rafters about their allegiance to the club.

But this is Southern California, and if nothing else, bragging about the near-perfect weather they have year-round is reason enough to be cocky.

20. Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pirates haven't finished with a record above .500 in 20 years.

When you've got fans showing up at games late in the season wearing Penguins jerseys, that tells you all that you need to know about the state of affairs on the field.

But in each of the past two seasons, we've seen the Pirates get hot midseason, sitting in first place for a bit before it all comes crashing down.

For that short amount of time, Pirates fans get awfully proud of their beleaguered franchise.

19. Kansas City Royals

Royals fans remember the good 'ol days when George Brett and Willie Wilson led a potent lineup and some 21-year-old kid named Saberhagen toed the rubber.

Those days are long gone, and while the Royals still boast a lineup that has the potential to be potent, they've not seen the results on the field.

Yet the Royals faithful can, at times, make Kaufman Stadium feel more like Arrowhead Stadium, cranking the volume all the way up and letting people know that the Royals are on their way back.

18. Colorado Rockies

If donning a purple mohawk and having someone spray-paint the Rockies' logo onto it doesn't make you part cocky, part crazy, I don't know what does.

Rockies fans continue to thump their chests about Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki, but those two and Dexter Fowler don't get you into the playoffs—or make you a perennial contender.

17. Cleveland Indians

Fans of the Indians haven't been calling themselves "Windians" too much lately.

Passionate, clever, cheeky and corny all rolled up into one—that's an Indians fan.

Just like the city itself.

16. Baltimore Orioles

Fans of the Orioles have had little choice but to sit by and watch as owner Peter Angelos destroyed the once proud franchise.

Despite even the mercurial owner's best efforts, Buck Showalter led this ragtag group into the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade in 2012, giving Orioles fans something else to brag about, aside from the Inner Harbor and crab cakes.

A passionate fanbase was reinvigorated, and the boasts of future greatness have begun to emanate from Camden Yards once again.

15. Chicago Cubs

Just because fans of the Cubs forced one of their own into the witness protection program—the man formerly known as Steve Bartman—doesn't make them cocky.

Scary? Sort of.

Passionate? For sure.

That these fans continue to pack Wrigley Field on a yearly basis is a testament to their dedication to the team.

But it doesn't make them all that cocky.

14. Toronto Blue Jays

There hasn't been much for Toronto to get excited about in recent years.

Stuck in the AL East with the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays, the Blue Jays have always faced an uphill battle from Opening Day on, and the fans knew it as well, keeping expectations at a minimum.

After this winter's shopping spree, however, expect those typically mild-mannered Blue Jays fans to become more vocal than we've ever heard them before.

13. Atlanta Braves

Yes, we all agree that the infield fly rule was improperly used during last year's playoffs, and that it was a costly error on the part of the umpires.

But Atlanta had plenty of chances to win that game, and they failed each and every time.

Yet Braves fans pelted the field with debris for more than 10 minutes, delaying the game and leaving Chipper Jones with a strange memory to take from his last game.

12. Detroit Tigers

They've got a chain-smoking manager, a 300-pound first baseman who is a vegetarian, the best pitcher on the planet and some guy named Miguel Cabrera.

It's hard not to be cocky when you get to cheer for that kind of team.

11. Los Angeles Angels

Los Angeles has a free-spending owner, the most exciting young player the game has seen since Ken Griffey, Jr. and a chance to win every season.

Angels fans will be quick to tell you how awesome their team is, but they are equally as quick to get on manager Mike Scioscia, the longest-tenured skipper in the major leagues and one of the more successful managers of the past 20 years.

Cocky, arrogant and a bit misguided.

10. Washington Nationals

Are Nationals fans cocky about the team's future after winning the NL East title in 2012?

That's a clown question, bro.

9. Chicago White Sox

Are White Sox fans cocky?

If you encountered any of them last season, you know the answer to that question is a resounding "yes."

There was "no way" that the ChiSox were going to squander their lead in the AL Central.

There was "no way" that the Sox weren't heading to the playoffs.

Except when the playoffs started, the Detroit Tigers were the team still playing.

Not only do White Sox fans have that to gripe about, but on the national scene the White Sox continue to play second fiddle to their crosstown rivals, the Cubs.

I suppose you need to be cocky when you're trying to get noticed.

8. Texas Rangers

Fans of the Rangers expect their team to contend for the World Series each and every season, and when the team fails to do so, the fans can turn on the players they cheer for in the blink of an eye.

Just ask Josh Hamilton, who was booed out of Arlington and right into the waiting arms of the team's division rivals, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

7. New York Mets

Fed up with inept ownership, Mets fans have done a good job of staying away from the ballpark.

But this is a proud fanbase, one that is quick to defend their favorite team, even when they don't have a leg to stand on.

Don't bother Mets fans with facts, because they're largely irrelevant—especially when those facts are coming out of a Yankees fan's mouth.

6. Los Angeles Dodgers

Dodgers fans are some of the most passionate in the game—from the second inning through the seventh inning.

By the time they get in their seats, the game is already underway. Forget about staying until the end—they've got to beat the traffic.

With bold new ownership buying every player available, it's only a matter of time before they start paying their fans to stick around for a full nine innings.

5. San Francisco Giants

It's hard not to be full of yourself when your favorite team wins two World Series championships in the span of three years.

When those championships are followed by rioting, well, it goes beyond being cocky.

But it takes a cocky—and arrogant person—to start trashing the city you live in simply because a team won a World Series.

4. St. Louis Cardinals

For years, we've been hearing about how wonderful, polite and knowledgeable fans of the St Louis Cardinals are.

Some have called them the best fans around, in any sport.

That all may be true, but it's something that has certainly resulted in a lot of head-swelling in St. Louis.

3. Philadelphia Phiilies

Philadelphia is notorious for having some of the most passionate fans around, regardless of the sport.

Phillies fans are no exception to the rule.

That passion often manifests itself in arrogance and a cocky attitude—especially if you dare enter the ballpark wearing another team's colors.

The City of Brotherly Love, indeed.

2. New York Yankees

You'll forgive me for referring to this group of fans as "we", but as I'm a lifelong member of the group myself, it's a force of habit.

We do big, bold, cocky, arrogant, obnoxious and over-the-top as well as any group of fans in the country.

We know it, you know it, and it doesn't bother us in the least.

This is New York—it's how we roll.

1. Boston Red Sox

All Red Sox fans needed was a taste of success, and they've become the most unstoppable—and overbearing—force in major league baseball.

Congratulations Red Sox nation: Once again, Boston is No. 1 in baseball.