Lucky, when I say it's my favorite, I'm mixing a lot of factors in it. I know it's not the greatest tasting beer, but it's pretty good. It's pretty much everything I look for in a beer (other beers might be better in certain categories but not in other categories).
These are the factors I use: taste, cost, and alcohol content. I like Bock and some other heavier beers, but I can't drink those one after another without getting a TERRIBLE hangover. Blonde doesn't have the taste some of the other ones have, but it's very smooth and lighter than the other Shiner beers so I can drink more with out getting the effects of a darker beer. Blonde allows me to do this.
So when I say it's my favorite, I'm not saying it's the best tasting (it's pretty good though), but it's the best combination of the factors I listed.
I agree with the American Lagers. Blonde is a notch above the Buds and Miller, but American Lagers for the most part don't have much taste in comparison to other beers and ales. Coors is probably the best out of the big 3...