Scholarship table
Cardinal fans are demanding fans. We live in the shadow of the small sloth bear up in Chicago. We see what happens when irrational support for a baseball team blossoms into a ridiculous love affair.We expect our team to win. We love Ozzie, Lou, Ted, Curt, Whitey, Bob, Yadi, Enos, Adam, even Albert, and most of all, Stan! But we love them because they were not just great people, they won baseball games. Lots of them. For years, our team played in one of the seven great pre-cast concrete wonders of the world. When the winds came in from the northeast, so too did the aroma of the Illinois slaughter yards. It's 107 degrees in the shade in July with 97 percent humidity.We've been called fair weather fans by Cub fans who endured 108 years of losing. That's not in our DNA. We would like to be World Champions every year but we know that's not likely. Instead, we want a team that is committed to winning and tries to be World Champions every year. In short, it's really tough to tank in St. Louis. We Cardinal fans won't tolerate it.If this makes us obnoxious, so be it. As Coach McGuire once said -- "a team is a reflection of its coach. Mine are arrogant and obnoxious."
I mean, Marquette basketball wears "AL" on its uniforms, practices in the AL McGuire Center and plays home games on the AL McGuire court, beneath an "Al" banner.It's hardly unique to one fanbase. Just not the ones with storied pasts to celebrate (looking at you, Brewers fans).Regardless, the point is LOTS of people still care about those Bulls teams, and not just Bulls fans living in the past. MJ hasn't played a game in two decades and is still the most popular and recognizable basketball player on the planet, including among people not old enough to remember his playing days.
I did. It’s the same concept. It’s very common.
It is fun to see how defensive Chicago sports fans get though.
The concept of the two articles are totally different. One was Yahoo ranking the worst fanbases in all of sports. The other was a local writer trying to stir the pot so that a rivalry could heat up, basically saying, "I wish the Bulls could compete with the Bucks, but we can't."Like I said, I'm pretty sure you didn't read the article. Or you don't know how to read. Because if you think the second one was claiming Milwaukee (or Chicago) sports fans suck, then your interpretation of the article is wacky as can be.
Lol at Cubs fans telling other organization's fans that they have no storied past to celebrate.
Every day I wake up and get on my knees to thank the Dear Lord Almighty that your beautiful children overcame their "Daddy Problem" and chose up wisely on their life partners.
Packer fans are the NFL’s version of MLB Cardinals fans except fatter
I know Bears fans love to live in the past.
My son, the apple of my eye and joy for which I'm eternally grateful, has adopted the Cardinals as his chosen baseball team. To the point where while he was in college in Southern Illinois, he made a point of going to Busch on discount ticket nights. Ahhh, the apple usually never falls far from the tree!
We can all thank Mrs. Dgies for this as a society.
Ms. Dgies is a brilliant, attractive and thoughtful woman. She was graduated from Marquette, married well and has had an outstanding career. She did an incredible job working with our two children. She has tolerated the fact that, despite her aversion to any type of sports, her husband and son could be found at virtually any nearby professional sporting event. She hates baseball and rarely will go with me. If she goes, the food better be good or I'll hear about it all the way home. Marquette basketball is a social event at which, if we're lucky, we might see someone we attended MU with. I, on the other hand, cannot be disturbed from tip-off to final buzzer.Ms. Dgies laughs at my undying devotion to our beloved Warriors and refuses to be in a room with me during a close game. She fears for the life of the TV set every time a critical free throw is missed, a turnover costs us or when we don't foul up by three with seconds left in the game!
For all Scoopers, Dgies only flies first class in life. His zest, passion, humor, compassion, inquisitive nature, and charity is unparalleled. And occasionally, he picks up a beer tab. Salt of the earth. His taste in chili, though...
Lol at anyone who thinks I'm a Cubs fan.That said, the pinnacle of Milwaukee baseball is losing a World Series 40 years ago. Congrats!
Guess who makes the list of top 10 worst posters.
No Brewers fans are walking around acting like they're some widely successful organization. But congrats on your 1906 and 1917 World Series Championships! I'm sure you had a blast celebrating those!Your boys to the South have made one World Series in the last 40 years as well!Or are you a Bears and Cardinals fan? Would make a lot of sense.
Thats fine, but the Cubs have won twice as many Central Division titles as the Brewers since the Brewers joined the division. 3 times as many until last season. They've made 3 more NLCS appearances than the Brewers in the last 20 years.The Cubs have had season upon season of disappointment and ineptitude and are far from a shining beacon of MLB success. Many fanbases can talk smack about their lack of success or myriad failures, the Brewers contingent trying to do so is just baseless and silly. Yet they continue to think its funny to make fun of the Cubs for sucking
<shrug>Most Cubs' fans I know love their team, love Wrigley Field a little too much, but fully realize the historic futility of the franchise.