Why we, the Cub fan, boos our favorite team:
Some old business:
This link from some guy named Pierce from May 30:
http://www.cubshub.com/article.php?story=2006053014272261
Contains this gem: "A season under the sun at Wrigley wasn't enough. Now the Wrigley Faithful wanted more. Gone were the glory days of the power hitting superstar. Gone were the days of beering, cheering and leaving when the beer ran dry. Wrigleyville was no longer the season long party that we had known and loved. Now it was a business."
and this:
"From that day, the day of game six, Cubs fans have been a different type of fan. We are no longer the fun loving bunch that we've been known to be. Now we are the title hungry fans that Wrigleyville has never seen. We want a title and we need another playoff run. Cubs fans are like junkies, and we need a playoff fix.This has clouded our judgment. We have become so angry over disappointing moments that we have become "boo birds". Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a "boo bird" but we've taken it too far. If a player makes a mistake we boo. If a player strikes out a couple of times people boo. We have become everything that most of us despise. We've become nothing more than Yankees fans in Cubbie Blue."
Well, Pierce, there is one HUGE difference between us and the Yankees - the Yankees have AVERAGED about one pennant every 3 years since 1921, if not better than that. Meanwhile, it has been OVER 60 years since the Cubs have won a pennant, not to mention 98 years since we won a World Series. That means that if you figure the youngest age a person would remember his team winning a World Series is probably about 5 (and I doubt he would remember too much at that), any person less than 103 years old would probably not remember the 1908 World Series champion Cubs. For that matter, 66 is probably the minimum age of someone who remembers the 1945 World Series. So we ain't exactly spoiled by success.
I'll tell you something else, Pierce. To me, it doesn't matter who you choose to blame for Game 6 -Steve Bartman, Prior, Baker, Gonzalez, Farnsworth, Sosa, Alou, or for Game 7 - Wood,Veres or anyone else, once they blew an almost certain pennant in 2003, we Cub fans felt cheated. Maybe in your Pollyanna world that is wrong, but I figure they owed us one after that. The fact that they haven't delivered makes most of us madder and madder. They choked in the 2003 NLCS, they choked the last week of 2004, and they flat out sucked in 2005 and it looks like 2006 is more of the same taste of shit. Also, the White Sox World Series victory in 2005 is their bad luck,because that raises the stakes that much more. We have also watched the Cubs come up with about 6 new ways to generate revenue that hasn't translated into paying top dollar for the elite free agent. So if we go to the games and they play like crap (in its many forms) we will boo them. Many of us won't go, or watch them on TV, if they play like crap. Too bad there are enough stupid people who run out on February 15th to buy all the single game tickets. Not me - not until they make a serious attempt to win the World Series.
Some old business:
This link from some guy named Pierce from May 30:
http://www.cubshub.com/article.php?story=2006053014272261
Contains this gem: "A season under the sun at Wrigley wasn't enough. Now the Wrigley Faithful wanted more. Gone were the glory days of the power hitting superstar. Gone were the days of beering, cheering and leaving when the beer ran dry. Wrigleyville was no longer the season long party that we had known and loved. Now it was a business."
and this:
"From that day, the day of game six, Cubs fans have been a different type of fan. We are no longer the fun loving bunch that we've been known to be. Now we are the title hungry fans that Wrigleyville has never seen. We want a title and we need another playoff run. Cubs fans are like junkies, and we need a playoff fix.This has clouded our judgment. We have become so angry over disappointing moments that we have become "boo birds". Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a "boo bird" but we've taken it too far. If a player makes a mistake we boo. If a player strikes out a couple of times people boo. We have become everything that most of us despise. We've become nothing more than Yankees fans in Cubbie Blue."
Well, Pierce, there is one HUGE difference between us and the Yankees - the Yankees have AVERAGED about one pennant every 3 years since 1921, if not better than that. Meanwhile, it has been OVER 60 years since the Cubs have won a pennant, not to mention 98 years since we won a World Series. That means that if you figure the youngest age a person would remember his team winning a World Series is probably about 5 (and I doubt he would remember too much at that), any person less than 103 years old would probably not remember the 1908 World Series champion Cubs. For that matter, 66 is probably the minimum age of someone who remembers the 1945 World Series. So we ain't exactly spoiled by success.
I'll tell you something else, Pierce. To me, it doesn't matter who you choose to blame for Game 6 -Steve Bartman, Prior, Baker, Gonzalez, Farnsworth, Sosa, Alou, or for Game 7 - Wood,Veres or anyone else, once they blew an almost certain pennant in 2003, we Cub fans felt cheated. Maybe in your Pollyanna world that is wrong, but I figure they owed us one after that. The fact that they haven't delivered makes most of us madder and madder. They choked in the 2003 NLCS, they choked the last week of 2004, and they flat out sucked in 2005 and it looks like 2006 is more of the same taste of shit. Also, the White Sox World Series victory in 2005 is their bad luck,because that raises the stakes that much more. We have also watched the Cubs come up with about 6 new ways to generate revenue that hasn't translated into paying top dollar for the elite free agent. So if we go to the games and they play like crap (in its many forms) we will boo them. Many of us won't go, or watch them on TV, if they play like crap. Too bad there are enough stupid people who run out on February 15th to buy all the single game tickets. Not me - not until they make a serious attempt to win the World Series.
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