Marty attracts national attention

by redandblue on Apr 18, 2008 2:37 PM EDT

Our beloved radio play-by-play guy has attracted national attention for criticizing Cubs fans.

This is the kind of thing, quite honestly right now, is the type of thing that makes you want to see this Chicago Cubs team lose. Among all baseball fans, and I can't attest for the Yankees or the Red Sox, because we don't see them with any degree of regularity, but far and away, the most obnoxious fans in baseball are those that follow this team right here. This is so typical of Chicago Cubs fans. You still root against them.

http://deadspin.com/381406/marty-brennaman-is-unlikely-to-receive-a-statue-outside-wrigley-field

http://www.deuceofdavenport.com/2008/04/marty-brennaman-hates-cubs-fans.html

Don't people know that he says this about the third basemen too? How is it controversial to loathe Cubs fans? That is a giant bandwagon.

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This is the least surprising thing ever.

a) Who doesn’t hate Cubs fans?
b) What doesn’t Marty hate?
c) What won’t Cubs fans whine about?

This is like a perfect storm of predictability and a non-story, by golly.

by Geki on Apr 18, 2008 2:56 PM EDT reply reply 7 recs

It amazes me that Cubs fans are so pissed at this

As a Reds fan, it’s refreshing to hear him attack somebody other than players on the Reds or Jim Bowden. Frankly though, he’s been coasting by on reputation for so long that something like this doesn’t even seem like a blip on the radar to me. Any Cubs fans reading this, don’t take it so personally. Marty is the very definition of crotchety.

WHY SHOULD I CHANGE IT? HE'S THE ONE WHO SUCKS!

by Slyde on Apr 18, 2008 4:44 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

this might be my favorite post ever.

by Blue on Apr 18, 2008 6:00 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

it's up there

Blue, can I introduce you to the “Rec” button?

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 9:01 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

one of the few rants of his

That I actually agree with.

Hope Springs Eternal! Go Reds

by Caleb on Apr 18, 2008 3:20 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

I think it's funnier in the general sense

But we all hate Cubs fans because they throw too many baseballs on the field? I think it would have been a fine rant if Jeff Brantley weren’t there making everyone listening dumber and dumber with every word.

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 9:03 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

i hate to be that guy

but i dont actually think any team’s fan base is more obnoxious than another’s. the more fans a team has, the easier it is to single out obnoxious ones, which is why most people hate cubs fans, yankees fans and red sox fans. Living in Louisville, all I hear from U of L fans is how obnoxious UK fans are, and all I hear from UK fans is how obnoxious “Loserville” fans are. Really all those people despise is the other team.

Marty may have a shirt on, but Billy Beane just ripped his off and is squeezing his nipples. - Brendan's ukkah

by boobs on Apr 18, 2008 3:36 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

as a UK fan...

I’m amazed to hear that Louisville even has any fans…

I guess Jefferson county residents are obnoxious, because the rest of the state is owned by UK

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on Apr 18, 2008 3:40 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

You're obnoxious

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on Apr 18, 2008 3:47 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

oh

why hello there…I didn’t think YOU’d be reading this thread!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on Apr 18, 2008 3:49 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Oboxious

Hell, that’s why im a wind-aided BoSox fan. OBNOXIOUS, but passionate.

NYY fans are obnoxious, but psychotic.

Cubs are obnoxious, but usually drunk.

by obc2 on Apr 18, 2008 5:56 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

You can't spell OBNOXIOUS without "B-O-S-O-X"

Er, you could but it would be wrong. I think.

You also can’t spell it with without “S-I-O-U-X,” but you can spell it without a lot of other letters.

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 9:07 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

totally different

Louisville fans are obnoxious because of an inferiority complex and their insecurity about the place of their basketball program and university compared to UK. The biggest criticism of Louisville fans is that they can dish out the hate, but take none of it, where the criticism of Cubs fans is that they’re a bunch of jerks who don’t know spit about baseball.

by Blue on Apr 18, 2008 5:58 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I've taken a LOT of hate in the last 15 years

And am just now being able to dish it back out. I grew up among tons of big blue morons and now live among tons of OSU/UC morons. Not fun until the last couple of years.

UK fans are much like Yankees fans in that when you present them with irrefutable evidence that they suck they’ll revert to “XXX amount of wins/championships!!”.

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on Apr 19, 2008 1:25 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I'm glad you have that disclaimer in your signature.

by Blue on Apr 19, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Bleed Cubbie Blue

are really offended by this. They are even writing letters to the Reds. Anyone else think it is a bit over dramatic??

Find me on MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/mixfmkyle

by MixFMKyle on Apr 18, 2008 5:21 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Yes. As is their name.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Apr 18, 2008 5:32 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Bleed Cubbie Blue makes me so appreciative of Red Reporter

Just reading through some of their threads, most of the posters seem pretty boring. People get worked up over really minor “issues,” (and while that’s been said of Red Reporter too, it ain’t nothing like those folks), and they have no hilarious pictures of cats. Let them do what they want; I refuse to take any further notice of them.

by Brendanukkah on Apr 18, 2008 5:33 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

My Letter

Dear Cubs fans,

To those of you who thought it would be funny to throw a bunch of baseballs on the field and risk a forfeit, stop being drunken retarded assholes and people will stop making fun of you. To the rest of you, set a good example and refuse to tolerate dumbassery such as that. Winning a World Series would probably shut some people up too, but we all know that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Love,
jch24

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on Apr 18, 2008 5:35 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Okay

Now WTF happened there?

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on Apr 18, 2008 5:36 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

inspirational

you had me at “bunch of baseballs”, bro

by obc2 on Apr 18, 2008 5:57 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I can see Bob Castellini

calling Marty into his office…

“Marty, we’re going to need you to apologize for what you said about the fans of the Chicago Cubs. They are a humble rival worthy of our resp… BWAHAHA! I couldn’t do it! I couldn’t say it with a straight face!”

by Blue on Apr 18, 2008 6:02 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Have you ever insulted a trophy wife's boutique?

they can get pissy about it.

I've got a plan and it's as hot as my pants...

by Man Mountain on Apr 18, 2008 6:32 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

i can tell im alone in my opinion

Marty may have a shirt on, but Billy Beane just ripped his off and is squeezing his nipples. - Brendan's ukkah

by boobs on Apr 18, 2008 6:15 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

I agree with you on the merits

I do believe some fan bases have trends, however. UNC fans tend to get hung up on the idea of “class,” which gets really silly. In my wide experience, LSU football fans tend to be very obnoxious and confrontational with other fan bases. And Red Sox fans and Cubs fans tend to be awestruck that anyone other than Yankees/Cardinals fans don’t like their team. I think it’s a holdover from considering themselves the lovable underdog.

I've got a plan and it's as hot as my pants...

by Man Mountain on Apr 18, 2008 6:30 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

As an Ohio State fan

I was shocked – SHOCKED – to find out that we are rather reviled outside the state of Ohio. Of course, I’m also shocked that things like Rockies fans exist. Some teams just have fanbases that extend all over the country and get loud. Particularly if they feel brittle about not having won anything for awhile. I like to think about 2004 and 2005. When the Red Sox won the World Series, there was the great rejoicing and the end of the Curse and all the rest of it. Then the White Sox won it the next year, and they had gone even LONGER without winning a World Series, but no one said boo.

I think we can all agree that Reds fans have the good graces to not fill the stadium, so as not to do obnoxious things to visiting teams.

by Brendanukkah on Apr 18, 2008 6:48 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I think you are

We can’t admit to equality and then go bashing them the rest of the year. Common!

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 9:09 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Good ol' sMarty - he always manages to remain

not only irrelevant but somehow still carry himself with a sort of cancerous kind of crotchety. Now Clownboy is starting to annoy me. I used to kind like his affected bumbling down home stuporiffic -ness. But he suddenly has found his ‘voice’ and oh god are we in for it this season. Oh well…go Reds.

4-17-2008 The Father of the chaos Theory Dies

by Madville on Apr 18, 2008 6:57 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Clownboy

Oh, I just don’t have anything to say about him anymore. It’s just so damn painful to listen to. And embarassing that he’s my team’s voice.

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 9:13 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I'm glad someone finally agrees with me...brantley is the suck

it’s bad enough that you can’t tell what the hell is going on when he calls an inning, but last night he called two innings giving out the wrong score!

We were down 5-0, and he kept saying it was 4-0 and all we needed was a grand slam to tie this thing up.

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on Apr 19, 2008 9:07 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I wonder how many times he didn't know the score or the count when he was playing.

by Brian B on Apr 19, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

grammer

The real travesty is that damn run-on sentence. It doesn’t end.

If you're not having fun, stop participating.

by redandblue on Apr 18, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Side note:

Can you imagine how much “national attention” we would all get if saying things like this about Cubs fans were all it took?

by Brian B on Apr 18, 2008 10:47 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Eh... It's the Cubs fans...

They haven’t won the World Series for 100 years, of course they’re gonna (female dog) about everything… In fact, I bet that was the reason that they dropped the third game…

Cubs fans always find a reason to blame their losses on things other than the faults of their players… Steve Bartman, Dusty Baker, etc.

People Don't Kill People. Burning Couches Kill People.

by crolfer on Apr 19, 2008 11:58 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Courtesy of "Fire Jay Mariotti"

this gem was posted to illustrate on view of Cub fans in 1983. (Language warning for the puckered up arses among us.)

I'm thirsty.

by Pops Daniels on Apr 21, 2008 3:21 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs

Marty Bitterman on Cubs

I agree it is better to attack the Cubs instead of the Reds. Marty was mostly right in his rant. However, he should be reminded that in the mid-eighties, when Rose shoved the umpire his remarks almost caused a riot. The game was held up, and Marty Bitterman was reprrmended by the baseball brass. Pot calling the kettle black?

by overlay on Apr 21, 2008 10:41 PM EDT reply reply 0 recs