Did anyone else cheer for the dodgers when they beat the Cubs?

by Sukotto on Oct 23, 2008 1:36 AM EDT Comment 34 comments

It might just be me but I personall can't stand the Chicago Cubs. I hate their team, their stadium, their players, their colors and most of all their fans. I for one was jumping up and down with joy while the Dodgers dealt the Cubs their ever expected choke. Could it be possible that I am just being jealous of the team that is constantly better than mine? Or does anyone else feel this way?

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No offense Cub fans, I just don't have any respect for the Cubs franchise....they suck.

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I feel exactly the same way

I was cheering for the Dodgers like I would cheer for the Reds…….nervous when the Cubs got a couple of guys on base (which, I guess was only a time or two in this case), yelling at fly balls to “get up” when it looked like they might be home runs, pumping my fist when the Dodgers got a double play. Even though the Reds ended up in 5th place, it made the season not feel so much like a failure to see the Cubs lose, especially like that.

I hate everything about the Cubs, but most especially their fans. Really that’s probably how all of the hatred started, anyway. I don’t hate the Cubs because they’re from Chicago……because I don’t mind the White Sox. I hate the whole backward hat-wearing Jeep Wrangler-driving drunk frat boy yuppie legions of fans that don’t know jack about baseball outside of Wrigley and Harry Caray and Ferris Bueller. So to see them all miserable, well, that’s what makes life worth living.

"Just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." - George Costanza

by beasleymachine on Oct 23, 2008 8:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Try living a block from Wrigley for 2 years.

You’ll see everything you’ve described. However, as much as I hate the Cuns and I really really do, I did thoroughly enjoy Wrigley and Wrigleyville. It’s a great place to live as a post-collegian.

"Yes, and it's so important in this sport that the athletes be able to train in the same location." -Cynthia Potter, NBC Synchronized Diving Analyst

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Oct 23, 2008 8:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The worst fans are the girls that buy pink Cubs hats and gear because they're "lovable losers"

“Was that Adonis Ramirez who just base hitted?” “Lisa! The Cubs turned a doubler!” were actual phrases I’ve heard at Wrigley during the Reds @ Cubs games I attended (all but 1 while living in Chicago).

"Yes, and it's so important in this sport that the athletes be able to train in the same location." -Cynthia Potter, NBC Synchronized Diving Analyst

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Oct 23, 2008 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

rec'd

because those idiocies you mentioned made me laugh.

i don’t hate the cubs, and i love their stadium. i just hate their *&^%$$#@! fans who’ve recently come to acknowledge that baseball is indeed a sport and wrigley field is an alternative to the regular drunken bar scene.

i used to go to reds games at wrigley while in college, and i always enjoyed the fun in the playful animosity we shared. now the animosity is real, and it isn’t fun anymore.

Yes We Can!

by Daedalus on Oct 23, 2008 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Growing up in the 1970s, I detested the Dodgers,

although I respected the organization. They were the Reds hated NL West rival.

In the early 1990s, I covered a Cubs minor league team and got to know a lot of their people, so as much as I hate to admit it, I have a bit of fondness for them. Most of the front office guys, except for Scott Nelson, are gone. Scott’s one of the higher ups in the organization and he’s a great guy.

The Cubs frequently used to send minor league instructors to Huntington. One of the great joys in my writing career was watching a 60-something Billy Williams take batting practice. What a sweet, sweet swing. He was a tremendously nice person. Very humble.

They also sent Jimmy Piersoll in as an instructor and he was everything you’ve heard, read and more. What a character. Another ex-big leaguer, Mick Kelleher, was a nice guy. The pitching coach was Ray Sadecki and he was terrific, too.

We Are ... Marshall!

by Thundering Turtle on Oct 23, 2008 8:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Got any Monica Lewinsky jokes, while we're covering timely topics?

by Brendanukkah on Oct 23, 2008 9:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I always enjoy some good oral history.

by jacob brumfield on Oct 23, 2008 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh I get it

’cause she sucked his cock, right?

Vote Pops in '08. I promise nothing and I'll do it!

by Pops Daniels on Oct 23, 2008 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

really?

someone should investigate this.

by jacob brumfield on Oct 23, 2008 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

To your titular question: oh my goodness yes

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

by Man Mountain on Oct 23, 2008 11:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

where's Battlekow these days?

MM’s title cries out to im.

...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield

by Cy Schourek on Oct 23, 2008 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, one needs special skills to find pics of tits on the internet

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

by Man Mountain on Oct 23, 2008 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, it's not like we're all ornithologists

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 23, 2008 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

there was a famous, perhaps apocryphal, radio kerfuffle in Britain

when an elderly listener turned in to BBC Radio One and heard “…tits like coconuts.” She immediately fired off an angry letter about obscenity on the radio.

It turned out it was a nature program, and the original phrase that the presenter had said was “…and blue tits like coconuts.”

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

by Man Mountain on Oct 23, 2008 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

by Brendanukkah on Oct 23, 2008 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

remind me to tell you sometime

about the public library and erotic mermaid fan fiction

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

by Man Mountain on Oct 23, 2008 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

what the?

that’s disturbing

Yes We Can!

by Daedalus on Oct 23, 2008 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that a smurf?

If so, that’s some f&^%ed up shit

Politickin' in God's Country

by chesirecat on Oct 23, 2008 7:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's not the worst that the Smurfs have endured

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MAYrF1PDks

by Red Menace on Oct 23, 2008 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

I'm not sure why

But that just made my morning, thanks.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 24, 2008 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lovely

Thanks Menace.

Vote Pops in '08. I promise nothing and I'll do it!

by Pops Daniels on Oct 24, 2008 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Beautiful and moving Menanace

Too bad it wasn’t the Peanuts gang…hey wait that would be a good You Tube video: Smurfs VS Peanuts in a ’til the death Jihad

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 24, 2008 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm confused...

Gambatte Ne!

by Sukotto on Oct 23, 2008 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

um, let me see, I'm a Cards fan.....

What do you think? Muwahahahahha

What is that now? 100 years? Here’s to 101!!! holds up a big beer to toast the continuing of the streak

I do feel bad for those who faithfully follow the Cubs and are true baseball fans………. ok, now that the nano-second of feeling bad is over…..time to drink that beer and turn up the music. :)

"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."
-Dizzy Dean

by thegashousegang on Oct 23, 2008 4:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

To answer the original question re: Dodgers VS Cubs

No.

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 23, 2008 5:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Are you kidding?

Do you know where you’re posting?

I’d root for Satan vs. the Flubs.

Often wrong, never uncertain.

by sidnancy on Oct 24, 2008 10:49 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Satan never would have employed Jim Edmonds

even he has standards.

Vote Pops in '08. I promise nothing and I'll do it!

by Pops Daniels on Oct 24, 2008 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Satan wouldn't appreciate a fellow wayward Angel?

or, at least, a treacherous Cardinal?

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

by Man Mountain on Oct 24, 2008 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Jim Edmonds killed Santa

and he times his dives. No way Satan is down with either of those things.

Vote Pops in '08. I promise nothing and I'll do it!

by Pops Daniels on Oct 24, 2008 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where were you when the BRM vs The Satanic Dodgers squared off year after year?

Oh…that’s right you weren’t born yet….Cubs fans suck…I like Lou and Ernie Banks
and Soriano – LF
Fontenot – 2B
Lee – 1B
Ramirez – 3B
Soto – C
Edmonds – CF
DeRosa – RF
Theriot – SS
Harden – P

Pretty decent line up….who’d we have Oh that Patterson guy and Bako plus Toothpick Man at the helm.

The dodgers:

    Pitchers:
   56 Hong-Chih Kuo L/L 6-1 235 07/23/81
   18 Hiroki Kuroda R/R 6-1 210 02/10/75
   36 Greg Maddux R/R 6-0 195 04/14/66
   61 Chan Ho Park R/R 6-2 210 06/30/73
   44 Takashi Saito L/R 6-2 215 02/14/70


   Catcher B/T Ht Wt DOB

   55 Russell Martin R/R 5-10 210 02/15/83

   Infielders B/T Ht Wt DOB
   13 Angel Berroa R/R 6-0 195 01/27/78
   15 Rafael Furcal S/R 5-9 195 10/24/77
   5 Nomar Garciaparra R/R 6-0 190 07/23/73
   60 Chin-lung Hu R/R 5-11 190 02/02/84
   12 Jeff Kent R/R 6-2 210 03/07/68
   14 Pablo Ozuna R/R 5-11 200 08/25/74
   21 Mark Sweeney L/L 6-1 195 10/26/69

Outfielders B/T Ht Wt DOB
   16 Andre Ethier L/L 6-2 210 04/10/82
   27 Matt Kemp R/R 6-2 230 09/23/84
   75 Xavier Paul L/R 6-0 195 02/25/85
   9 Juan Pierre L/L 5-11 180 08/14/77
   99 Manny Ramirez R/R 6-0 200 05/30/72

There’s only a couple of guys to root for…I mean who are these guys…

Manny Ramirez and Nomar…..and a couple of old guys Maddux and Kent

Dodger’s fans can’t bwe bothered to attend the game or if theyt do its for about 4 innings – in by the middle of the 3rd and on the way home the bottom of the 6th

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 24, 2008 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm with Mads...

…which is scary in itself.

As I’ve mentioned before, the Dodgers are the root of all that is vile and disgusting in baseball.

See, here’s the problem with hating the Cubs. They suck. Even when they win, they still can’t win. That is not hate-inspiring. It’s just pathetic.

The Dodgers became the Hated Dodgers because they won. The Yankees became the Hated Yankees because they won. No one says, ‘Oh no! We have to play the Cubs juggernaut!’

And if that doesn’t convince you, I have two words: Dusty Baker.

’Nuff said.

by bbjones on Oct 25, 2008 1:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

BB and I are joined at the hip

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 25, 2008 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Most Hated Fans on the Planet

I bought a Dodgers hat I was so excited. Marty B’s prediction came true as usual. The Cubs did find a way to blow it. The Red’s time is just around the corner. I look forward to the day that I can tell an annoying Cub fans to go “F” themselves bc the Reds just beat their a$$. GO REDS!

by udayton1128 on Oct 24, 2008 4:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs