Why Cubs fans are hated

[loukycub]

i hit the submit button too soon. i gots more relevant stuff to add to the above.

 

when we were leaving the game on thursday, there were a bunch of "go home cubs fans" chants. i'm like, what the h are you talking about. go WIN something in your history, a wild card, division, a division series, something other than the wooden spoon before you can talk smack. even though the last world series championship for the cubs was 100 years ago, at least we won the division the previous year and 2003 which is more than you have in your entire existance.

[Guest]

I just got back from Pittsburgh this morning and definately didn't feel all that hated. There were a few people that were just bitter but for the most part they were a nice crowd. After the game monday night we went out to some bars wearing Cubs jerseys and no one even seemed to care. Huge difference from St. Lou or the cell.

[TruffleShuffle]

I didn't read the article, but the Cubs are hated in way more places than those 3. I've read accounts of just about every road team calling our fans obnoxious. Teams get pissed because they're going to a game in their own home park and their surrounded by the away team's fans. At minimum, Atlanta, Florida, Colorado, and Arizona fans do not like us.

 

I've been to Colorado a lot, and I don't think that's true. That place is loaded with ex-Chicagoans and Cubs fans, and by and large Rockies and Cubs fans get along very well. Cubs fans are not hated in NY. They are sort of grudgingly respected for dealing with the crap they deal with, and I've heard several teams NYers say they'd like to see the Cubs win. Boston is similar. Atlanta and Florida don't count, since they don't have any fans.

 

The game I went to at Shea, the Mets fans were way too busy hating the Mets to pay attention to the Cubs.

 

They hate the Yankees first, Mets second, and themselves third. Everybody else falls near the bottom.

 

they also hate their parents

[DivineBovine]

What a buffoon. And he knows THREE people who hate Ryne Sandberg. Stop the presses! Ryno is a total prick! I knew it!

 

Its good to be hated. In sports, it means you're good. I love it. Because there hasn't been a team is pro sports history that has been good without haters.

[Amie]

I didn't read the article, but the Cubs are hated in way more places than those 3. I've read accounts of just about every road team calling our fans obnoxious. Teams get pissed because they're going to a game in their own home park and their surrounded by the away team's fans. At minimum, Atlanta, Florida, Colorado, and Arizona fans do not like us.

 

I've been to Colorado a lot, and I don't think that's true. That place is loaded with ex-Chicagoans and Cubs fans, and by and large Rockies and Cubs fans get along very well. Cubs fans are not hated in NY. They are sort of grudgingly respected for dealing with the crap they deal with, and I've heard several teams NYers say they'd like to see the Cubs win. Boston is similar. Atlanta and Florida don't count, since they don't have any fans.

 

 

 

I listen to WFAN out of NY a lot because they talk a lot about baseball. One of their hosts is a huge Cub fan, Adam the Bull, so he talks us up a lot. But many of the callers have said that if the Mets don't make it into the playoffs, they'll be rooting for the Cubs. A few Yankee fans too.

 

In some cities the fans hate us for silly reasons. The worst one I've heard is because pure jealousy. We had WGN all these years to watch games on TV, all over the country, so to many fans that was unfair. Card fans are especially bad for that, but I've heard a few others say it too. They think we only follow the Cubs because they were on TV all the time. Very lame.... :scratch:

[Jehrico]

What a buffoon. And he knows THREE people who hate Ryne Sandberg. Stop the presses! Ryno is a total prick! I knew it!

 

Its good to be hated. In sports, it means you're good. I love it. Because there hasn't been a team is pro sports history that has been good without haters.

I think some of you guys are totally missing the point on this article. The point of the article isn't to highlight that there are people who hate the cubs. Basically, the writer is making a case to support his opinion that all of the haters (the few of them that there are) are irrational, there's no rational reason to hate the cubs. He's not slamming Ryno because three people hate him or anything like that at all.

[shnsajax]

Astros fans have a huge hatred for the Cubs and Cub fans.

 

What did we ever do to them?

 

I'm still chalking this up to jealousy over the popularity of the team despite it's dismal success on the field.

 

And perhaps to the (mostly) myth of the "social event"-Cub fan.

 

They hate everyone and the Cards more than the Cubs. There are a lot of Cub fans in Houston and always at the games.

[The Voice of Reason]

So he writes an article about how people hate the Cubs, and his examples are: Cardinal fans, Sox fans and Brewer fans.

 

STOP THE PRESSES!

 

I like Posnanski, but that's pretty stupid.

 

People everywhere hate the Yankees and Red Sox, not just in Baltimore and Toronto. I tend to think that if the Cubs make the series, most fans not affiliated with the other team will be rooting for them.

 

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

Milwaukee and Sox fans hatred stems from a well deserved inferiority complex.

[Old Style]

Astros fans have a huge hatred for the Cubs and Cub fans.

 

What did we ever do to them?

 

I'm still chalking this up to jealousy over the popularity of the team despite it's dismal success on the field.

 

And perhaps to the (mostly) myth of the "social event"-Cub fan.

They hate us because too many Cub fans go to games in their dump of a city. They hate the fact that someone from Texas could like a team that's not from Texas. They hate the fact that the Cubs get more attention. And so on.

[Amie]

What a buffoon. And he knows THREE people who hate Ryne Sandberg. Stop the presses! Ryno is a total prick! I knew it!

 

Its good to be hated. In sports, it means you're good. I love it. Because there hasn't been a team is pro sports history that has been good without haters.

I think some of you guys are totally missing the point on this article. The point of the article isn't to highlight that there are people who hate the cubs. Basically, the writer is making a case to support his opinion that all of the haters (the few of them that there are) are irrational, there's no rational reason to hate the cubs. He's not slamming Ryno because three people hate him or anything like that at all.

 

I caught that point, in fact there was no single valid reason mentioned. Perhaps some of these writers should be more clear in that, rather then gather more readers just by mentioning the Cubs as a hated fan base. Many of these smaller markets just eat that up.

[Outshined_One]

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

The Cardinals have a huge following throughout most of the Midwest thanks to KMOX carrying their games and having a huge reach throughout the US from the 1950s until about 2006. It's surprising how many Cardinals fans you'll find in those areas.

[Derwood]

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

The Cardinals have a huge following throughout most of the Midwest thanks to KMOX carrying their games and having a huge reach throughout the US from the 1950s until about 2006. It's surprising how many Cardinals fans you'll find in those areas.

 

they were also the only team west of the Mississippi River for decades

[TruffleShuffle]

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

The Cardinals have a huge following throughout most of the Midwest thanks to KMOX carrying their games and having a huge reach throughout the US from the 1950s until about 2006. It's surprising how many Cardinals fans you'll find in those areas.

 

from going to games where the cardinals played the phillies and red sox, i have to conclude that the average age of a cardinals fan is 97 years old.

[The Voice of Reason]

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

The Cardinals have a huge following throughout most of the Midwest thanks to KMOX carrying their games and having a huge reach throughout the US from the 1950s until about 2006. It's surprising how many Cardinals fans you'll find in those areas.

 

from going to games where the cardinals played the phillies and red sox, i have to conclude that the average age of a cardinals fan is 97 years old.

 

97 is also their average IQ.

[Illini Iceman]

I don't sense alot of red/cubs animosity....I regularly go to Cubs games up in Cincy and it has always seemed like a good natured rivalry. Reds fans and Cubs fan co-exist pretty nicely and respectfully there. Of course, that could be 'cause the Reds are so bad, there's not much of a rivalry!

 

reds have fans? you live here. i find more st. louis and cubs fans more than i find reds fans in this town at least. i think we only have the smattering of reds fans because of the bats.

 

as soon as i get my off days confirmed, i'm looking forward to seeing wrigley ohio next week (and evening my record at cubs games. tampa, ew).

 

speaking of tampa...

I didn't read the article, but the Cubs are hated in way more places than those 3. I've read accounts of just about every road team calling our fans obnoxious. Teams get pissed because they're going to a game in their own home park and their surrounded by the away team's fans. At minimum, Atlanta, Florida, Colorado, and Arizona fans do not like us.

 

i think the reverse is true. i hate tampa not because we got swept there, but because of their front running obnoxious bandwagon fans. the three games down there were packed. the recent series they had against the los angeles angels of anaheim near san bernadino in the state of california in the united states of north america on planet earth in the solar system of the milky way galaxy in the local group, in tampa, where the two best teams (record wise ) of the american league were doing battle, the place was half full on tv. that insults me as a baseball fan.

 

So, just to clarify, do you hate Rays fans because they are front running obnoxious bandwagon fans that only started going to the games when the team got good or because they aren't front running bandwagon fans and won't fill the park now that the team got good. I am confused.

 

I went to a game in Tampa as well and was kind of annoyed but I am sure would have been much more accepting if the Cubs had played well and won.

 

In general I have found that when I go to a road game and the Cubs win I leave thinking the fans are good sports and when they lose I think the fans are obnoxious. The results of the game definitely taint perception of how the opposing fans are behaving.

[loukycub]

the fans who were there were talking a lot of junk that i do not believe their team can cash. the fans i heard on the radio were also talking a bunch of stuff too. however whenever i see them on tv and they aren't playing the sox or yankees there is nobody there. i caught highlights of the toronto game from last night. in june that section was packed. there was no one there in that highlight. i understand filling up the stadium for a good team. i understand filling up the stadium for a bad team. i understand not filling up for a bad team. i cannot understand not filling up for one of the best teams in the american league.

 

so to answer your question its no. i hate devil ray fans because they are front running obnoxious bandwagon fans that DON'T go to the games when the team got good AND and won't fill the park now that the team got good, unless the other team fills it up for them. the ones in the park were obnoxious. really really obnoxious. i didn't like that. then they don't pack the house for a really good team. i really don't like that.

[Gingerballs Lives]

All the exposure the Cubs get as a national team with a broad following really bugs Cardinal fans as the Cards are primarily a regional team with most of their fans in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and central and southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

The Cardinals have a huge following throughout most of the Midwest thanks to KMOX carrying their games and having a huge reach throughout the US from the 1950s until about 2006. It's surprising how many Cardinals fans you'll find in those areas.

 

from going to games where the cardinals played the phillies and red sox, i have to conclude that the average age of a cardinals fan is 97 years old.

 

97 is also their average IQ.

 

That's not exactly an insult.

 

More like a statistical probablility.