A.J. Calls Cubs Fans Idiots

[danonwaveland]

You could say something similar about Sox fans and why they don't draw jack, even after winning the series: 'Eighty-five percent of our fans can't afford to come to the park as you can't buy tickets with food stamps.'

 

I can see the new signs above the tickets windows at the south side baseball stadium: "We accept, cash, Mastercard, Visa, Discover and food stamps." Love it.

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Sandberg>Mazeroski>Morgan

[OleMissCub]

I checked out WSI for some laughs and ran across this gold nugget:

 

cws05champ:

 

I went to Fridays game, and everyone around us was from somewhere else, tourists just wanting to see a game at Wrigley. We had people from Houston, NC, Montana, Austin etc. Yet another stereotype of the Wrigley crowd fufilled.

 

After the game we didn't get messed with too much, I was surprised. Me and my buddy both had our road jerseys on and were pissed off, I think most were too intimidated to say anything.

 

The horrors of tourists coming to Chicago and actually visiting a part of baseball history.

 

I don't think anyone was intimidated, dude, just ignoring you while celebrating a Cubs win. A concept which seems foreign to a majority of Sox fans - celebrating your team's victory instead of rubbing it in your opponent's face.

 

The thing is, most of these "tourists" are not tourists in the regular sense of the word i.e. "hey, the travel guide says we should go here, let's go to a game". They are just dedicated Cubs fans from other parts of the country.

[inari]

I checked out WSI for some laughs and ran across this gold nugget:

 

cws05champ:

 

I went to Fridays game, and everyone around us was from somewhere else, tourists just wanting to see a game at Wrigley. We had people from Houston, NC, Montana, Austin etc. Yet another stereotype of the Wrigley crowd fufilled.

 

After the game we didn't get messed with too much, I was surprised. Me and my buddy both had our road jerseys on and were pissed off, I think most were too intimidated to say anything.

 

The horrors of tourists coming to Chicago and actually visiting a part of baseball history.

 

I don't think anyone was intimidated, dude, just ignoring you while celebrating a Cubs win. A concept which seems foreign to a majority of Sox fans - celebrating your team's victory instead of rubbing it in your opponent's face.

 

The thing is, most of these "tourists" are not tourists in the regular sense of the word i.e. "hey, the travel guide says we should go here, let's go to a game". They are just dedicated Cubs fans from other parts of the country.

 

I am often part of a sizable portion of the Wrigley crowd that comes all the way from Iowa.

 

And he thought they were intimidated? What the hell?

[CubmanPi]

Lou on the White Sox:

 

"I respect their team, I respect their organization, and I do what's best for the Chicago Cubs in my mind, and I let it go at that. That's all I can do."

 

Not sayin anything. Just sayin.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Regardless of what AJ says, Aramis likes us!

 

"He can say whatever he wants,'' Ramirez said. "A.J. is A.J. Everybody knows him. He can say whatever he wants about the Cubs fans.

 

"I like them. If he doesn't like them, that's his problem.''

 

Link.

[TMan92]

My two cents on all of this:

 

1) Teams are a reflection of their leadership and the Sox are looking like a bunch of mental midgets. It is amazing how easy it is to get into this team's head.

 

2) Steve Stone is a moron. Is Carlos Quentin on something? What about half of the Sox team in 2005? Give me a break.

[Soul]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

[bukie]

Maybe he just didn't know that it's possible for some baseball teams to have fans that live more than 10 miles away from the park.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

[YearofDaCubs]

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=63872&st=930&start=930

This was in the game thread, but supposedly Farmer and Stone were saying how suspicious the maturation process of G. Soto has been from medicore minor league hitter to premiere offensive hitting catcher. With Stone's connections to the Cubs, this is as close to a declaration of guilt as you'll get without a positive test.

 

Yeah, I was listening in for that. Stoney went off on a nice little discussion of how Soto had never hit more than 5 home runs in his career over 6 years or so and suddenly already has 12 this year and has turned in to one of their most dangerous hitters.

 

PEDs...no doubt.

 

If Cubs fans were some how miraculously on this board, they'd point to TCQ.

 

I would come in his defense and show them his amazing minor league and college numbers.

 

he's made the same vague accusations on WSCR about soto's increase in power. as someone on nsbb has pointed out, stone himself, had one really great year when he won the cy young. strange coincidence.

I for one am glad Stone is no longer working for the Cubs and it's only fitting he ended up in the WSox organization.

[Old Style]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games.

[CuseCubFan69]

They have to have a complex. They are one of 2 Chicago teams and one of 2 teams with the word Sox in it. They have no true identity of their own.

[Soul]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games.

 

Yep, me too. Just remember, you know nothing about baseball and just come to Wrigley to see women and drink beer.

[beersoakedivy]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games.

 

Yep, me too. Just remember, you know nothing about baseball and just come to Wrigley to see women and drink beer.

 

I was also born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area...I had no idea I'm now a tourist because I live elsewhere these days. What a joke...this is why it is impossible to pull for the other team in Chicago. I dealt with the same stuff growing up. It never changes

[Jehrico]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games.

 

Yep, me too. Just remember, you know nothing about baseball and just come to Wrigley to see women and drink beer.

 

I was also born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area...I had no idea I'm now a tourist because I live elsewhere these days. What a joke...this is why it is impossible to pull for the other team in Chicago. I dealt with the same stuff growing up. It never changes

Could it be we're all "tourists" now because we were part of the generation that grew up watching the Cubs on WGN, and now we're all grown up with jobs living in other places?

[beersoakedivy]

I guess when I go to a game at Wrigley I'm just a "tourist" from another part of the country then. :roll:

 

Me too.

I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games.

 

Yep, me too. Just remember, you know nothing about baseball and just come to Wrigley to see women and drink beer.

 

I was also born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area...I had no idea I'm now a tourist because I live elsewhere these days. What a joke...this is why it is impossible to pull for the other team in Chicago. I dealt with the same stuff growing up. It never changes

Could it be we're all "tourists" now because we were part of the generation that grew up watching the Cubs on WGN, and now we're all grown up with jobs living in other places?

 

If I new I was going to be labled a tourist I would have just stayed in the area and got a job at one of the steel mills. Yeah right