Blog rips Cubs Fans (Journalism at its finest)

[Cubs08]

http://blogs.chron.com/gamedayastros/2008/09/stay_classy_cubs_fans.html

Let me get this straight. Houston is ravaged by a hurricane and without power and ways to communicate. The Astros have to convene at Minute Maid Park early in the morning Sunday and navigate through the damage to fly to Milwaukee to play a "home" game against the Chicago Cubs. It was a stressful time for the Astros, whose homes were damaged, who had to leave their families behind and in the dark while wondering about the well-being of friends and relatives.

So what do Cubs fans do when the Astros take the field at Miller Park? They boo them. Nice going, Cubs fans. Most of America knew your true colors, and you just showed it once again. Not surprising. Maybe there's a reason you've been losers for 100 years. It's called karma. I'm sure if your fine city had been ravaged by two consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures, the fans of Houston would be more kind.

I just can't wait to see how the Cubs will blow it this year.

[CubbieBum]

FYI blogs in 99.9% of cases is not journalism.

[Springfield_CUBBY]

http://blogs.chron.com/gamedayastros/2008/09/stay_classy_cubs_fans.html

behind and in the dark while wondering about the well-being of friends and relatives.

So what do Cubs fans do when the Astros take the field at Miller Park? They boo them. Nice going, Cubs fans. Most of America knew your true colors, and you just showed it once again. Not surprising. Maybe there's a reason you've been losers for 100 years. It's called karma. I'm sure if your fine city had been ravaged by two consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures, the fans of Houston would be more kind.

I just can't wait to see how the Cubs will blow it this year.

Huh? That's like EVERDAY in Chicago from June to September . . . ? :scratch:

[Old Style]

Yeah, I agree. The Cub fans really should have pretended they were Astro fans for the last two games since Houston was the home team. How DARE they root for their own team? Soapdropping embarrassing, I tells ya.

[BCVM22]

The comments are a tapestry of strands woven of finely-spun gold and awesome.

[C.C.]

The talk backs are even worse.

[CubbieBum]

Yeah, I agree. The Cub fans really should have pretended they were Astro fans for the last two games since Houston was the home team. How DARE they root for their own team? Soapdropping embarrassing, I tells ya.

 

Eh I agree with the blog in part. We shouldn't root or cheer for the Stros but we shouldn't have booed them. Think about when Katrina hit and what would have happened if Giants fans would have booed the Saints. Yes remain a fan of your own team but don't boo the guys who just had their town destroyed for simply taking the field.

[daske17]

Maybe I'm confused, but when did the Cubs become one of the most hated teams in baseball?

[BCVM22]

Maybe I'm confused, but when did the Cubs become one of the most hated teams in baseball?

 

When this guy proclaimed them to be such, obviously.

[MasterBlaster]

This should be over by now. It's pathetic the nonstop excuses being made on how it's not the Astros players faults for their suckitude, and how the Cubs were not absolutely dominant.

[wvcbxl]

Maybe I'm confused, but when did the Cubs become one of the most hated teams in baseball?

 

When they started winning. 8-)

[Little Slide Rooter]

If these millionaires are too cheap to get their familes somewhere safe before the impending hurricane, whose karma really coming after?

[kujay]

What a hack. That's on a newspaper blog in the 4th largest city in the country.

 

Can you imagine Sullivan (well, er...) writing anything like that on his blog?

[SouthSideRyan]

FYI blogs in 99.9% of cases is not journalism.

 

Most of the tripe in newspapers and on TV isn't either.

[UMFan83]

The Astrosdaily.com posters are ripping the Cubs as classless for the same thing.

 

Are we supposed to cheer for the Astros, dropping our lifelong allegiances to the Cubs because they had to leave their families and come to Milwaukee? We understand they went through a hard time. I really feel for them. If it were up to me and most Cubs fans, we would have played the games on schedule in MMP. But they didn't. If Cubs fans are given the opportunity to get 2 extra "home" games during the stretch run of one of the best seasons in several generations, why should we not be enthusiastic? Booing the Astros is not me saying "screw you Houston and that little storm you had", its me being a Cub fan.

 

I do think they should at least acknowledged the hurricane at Miller Park and maybe have made places where you could make donations for the relief efforts, but then again these 2 games were put together so quickly, its hard to fault them.

[UMFan83]

What a hack. That's on a newspaper blog in the 4th largest city in the country.

 

Can you imagine Sullivan (well, er...) writing anything like that on his blog?

 

I don't think we can conceptualize what our writers would say because our city wasn't nearly destroyed by a weather event.

[SouthSideRyan]

No Astros player should have left their families if they were so concerned about them. They had the option of bringing them with and they chose to leave them behind. Probably so their wives wouldn't find out about their mistress in Milwaukee.

[CubbieBum]

If these millionaires are too cheap to get their familes somewhere safe before the impending hurricane, whose karma really coming after?

 

There are friends and just the people of your city in general. Try not to be so insensative. People died.

[CubbieBum]

FYI blogs in 99.9% of cases is not journalism.

 

Most of the tripe in newspapers and on TV isn't either.

 

true

[bukie]

I'd wager the great majority of the complainers would be singing a different tune had the Astros won one of the games. If they wanted to blame anyone, it should have been their owner for trying to wait out the storm and hold the games in Houston. If they had agreed to move the series right away, it would've gone to Tampa. By the time McLane finally decided it wouldn't work in Houston, it was already Saturday, and the only stadium that was 1) covered to prevent any rainouts, and 2) available Sunday and Monday was in Milwaukee.

[CubbieBum]

No Astros player should have left their families if they were so concerned about them. They had the option of bringing them with and they chose to leave them behind. Probably so their wives wouldn't find out about their mistress in Milwaukee.

 

wow

 

Try putting yourselves in Astros fans shoes. If Chicago was hit by a tornado and hundreds died would you like it if the next game being played in Dallas versus Astros that the Cubs were booed for taking the field?

[SouthSideRyan]

No Astros player should have left their families if they were so concerned about them. They had the option of bringing them with and they chose to leave them behind. Probably so their wives wouldn't find out about their mistress in Milwaukee.

 

wow

 

Try putting yourselves in Astros fans shoes. If Chicago was hit by a tornado and hundreds died would you like it if the next game being played in Dallas versus Astros that the Cubs were booed for taking the field?

 

I'm putting myself in the shoes of a Houston or better yet a Galveston resident who's lost their home and belongings and I'm sitting here listening to a multi-millionaire complain about having to go play a baseball game in another city. Complaining about their multi-millionaire families having a couple inches of water in the basement. I'm putting myself in the shoes of people actually affected by this, not somebody who could afford to protect themselves and their families and chose not to, not somebody who played the woe is me card while they were in the bottom 0.1% of people affected by the storm.

[C.C.]

No Astros player should have left their families if they were so concerned about them. They had the option of bringing them with and they chose to leave them behind. Probably so their wives wouldn't find out about their mistress in Milwaukee.

 

wow

 

Try putting yourselves in Astros fans shoes. If Chicago was hit by a tornado and hundreds died would you like it if the next game being played in Dallas versus Astros that the Cubs were booed for taking the field?

 

 

As a sports fan you have tunnel vision. You go to sporting events to forget about the real world, and you do get wrapped up into the game. This is honestly being blown way out of proportion.

 

What they could've done is took a 10 second vow of silence honoring the victims before the game to remind people, which they didn't.

[MasterBlaster]

Maybe the Cubs fans were frustrated by the situation that the Astros management was responsible for. They can't boo Drayton McLane, so it could have been the only way for Cubs fans to express their frustration with McLane's actions on delaying the series.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

As a journalist, I'd like to formally request this thread's title be changed.

 

It's bad enough we get lumped in with talking heads and TV commentators, now we're responsible for opinion blogs too?