Burning my Cubs Merchandise today.

[Master Shake]

Today I am officially stopping being a fan of baseball. I always said I'd give up on baseball before I give up on the Cubs.

 

 

Fortunately I don't have much in the way financial outlay on my merch (My hat got ruined last year, so that's long gone). All I have is a newspaper from the morning after Z's no hitter and a bumpersticker.

 

At 10:30 this morning, I'm going to take the offending items, put them on my weber and send them to the pits of hell from where they came.

 

30 years a fan, 30 years of losing, 4860 games of fasle hope.

 

Bye bye baseball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YEah, like I'm gonna give it up. I know whats gonna happen come april. I'll be coming back to this team like a dog to his vomit. It always happens.

 

Prepare for the "100 year loser" signs by all the tard and Sox fans at games next year. Its not gonna get easier for us fans at all.

[erik316wttn]

Today I am officially stopping being a fan of baseball. I always said I'd give up on baseball before I give up on the Cubs.

 

 

Fortunately I don't have much in the way financial outlay on my merch (My hat got ruined last year, so that's long gone). All I have is a newspaper from the morning after Z's no hitter and a bumpersticker.

 

At 10:30 this morning, I'm going to take the offending items, put them on my weber and send them to the pits of hell from where they came.

 

30 years a fan, 30 years of losing, 4860 games of fasle hope.

 

Bye bye baseball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YEah, like I'm gonna give it up. I know whats gonna happen come april. I'll be coming back to this team like a dog to his vomit. It always happens.

 

Prepare for the "100 year loser" signs by all the tard and Sox fans at games next year. Its not gonna get easier for us fans at all.

 

I wish I could quit. I know how a smoker must feel. I'll go through withdrawl for a few weeks, then I'll be ok in winter, but once spring training hits I'll get the itch again and won't be able to wait for the opportunity to be kicked in the nuts again by this team.

 

I must be a masochist. Or I must have been a murderer in a previous life for God to have made me be born into a family of Cubs fans.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I know theres a lot of people out there saying this is it, Im done with these losers. Maybe part of us thinks its true. Its not. It wont even be until spring training. As soon as the hot stove starts heating up, we'll all be back into it. Granted, Id like to burn every piece of Cubs memorabilia I own, most of the players too.

 

Ever see the Jim Carey movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, where theres a machine that can erase any person from your memory? If they could do that for me with the Cubs, Id be much happier, but until such technology exists, all of us are going to take every ounce of emotional abuse this team dishes out year after year.

[bcl412]

I was already thinking, right after the game, what we need to do to improve the team for next year. What is wrong with me, I am pretty sure thie is a form of mental suicide.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I was already thinking, right after the game, what we need to do to improve the team for next year. What is wrong with me, I am pretty sure thie is a form of mental suicide.

 

My friend and I were talking about possible moves after the game as well. I've given up on the fact that I'll ever be able to just quit the sport or the team, but this offseason is a much welcomed break.

[Cynosure]

You'll be back next season, don't kid yourself.

[manbearcub]

If anyone else is burning all their stuff today, consider sending it to me instead. I could always use more.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Yeah. If you have any cool stuff you guys are thinking of burning, just send it to me.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I have a lot of cool Cubs memorabilia, that might be satisfing to burn. Like I said, not going to happen. My Fukudome jersey shirt, on the other hand...

[Master Shake]

Didnt do it.

 

And I probably won't.

 

 

Emotions suck :lol:

[XZero771679666304]

I am always confused when this happens. If you could actually just give it up, you obviously don't care enough for it to bother you that much, so why the angst?

 

Most people who say this stuff don't mean it, so they should drop the pretense.

 

Those who do mean it should go away.

[Master Shake]

I am always confused when this happens. If you could actually just give it up, you obviously don't care enough for it to bother you that much, so why the angst?

 

Most people who say this stuff don't mean it, so they should drop the pretense.

 

Those who do mean it should go away.

 

Just like when you drink you should not drive for at least 2 hours, when you suffer something as devestating as what happened last nightm, you hsouldn't post for at least 2 days, cuz you'll end up saying all sorts of crazy things otherwise.

[imb]

I am always confused when this happens. If you could actually just give it up, you obviously don't care enough for it to bother you that much, so why the angst?

 

Most people who say this stuff don't mean it, so they should drop the pretense.

 

Those who do mean it should go away.

 

my brother in arms

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I am always confused when this happens. If you could actually just give it up, you obviously don't care enough for it to bother you that much, so why the angst?

 

Most people who say this stuff don't mean it, so they should drop the pretense.

 

Those who do mean it should go away.

 

Please, spare me. Finding out that you have a breaking point doesn't mean you don't care enough. Your breaking point may be further along than mine, you may may never come close to reaching that point, and that may all make you a 'better' fan than us, but deep down you have a breaking point, too.

 

I've been perfectly honest in saying that I'm about 85% certain that I'll be back, but I am weighing my options. The reality is that I'd be throwing away 25 years of emotional investment in the Cubs, and that if I jumped ship and the new team won it all, it wouldn't feel nearly the same. And if the Cubs ever won, all those fans who stuck with it will be a lot happier than me.

 

But quite frankly, rooting for the Cubs has become so unfun that it may be worth it. People keep trying to equivocate, saying "the best team doesn't always win," but that glosses over the sheer statistical improbability of what keeps happening to the Cubs. No team had ever been swept in the division series after winning this many games (though the Angels might break that record tonight). They've lost 9 straight playoff games, all by multiple runs. They've lost six straight potential pennant clinching games. There's a point where the whole thing jumps the shark, and entire seasons become not fun anymore, and even if they did win the WS it'd only be after 7 months of worrying and discounting and it wouldn't even be that fun.

 

The unofficial fan system says I'm honor bound to stick with a team I don't like because of a fluke of geography that caused me to align with them before I was old enough to understand what I was doing (and dang it, I was born right in the middle of Cubs and Cardinals fan countries, so it could have gone either way...), and I'm questioning that system.

 

If that bothers some people around here, when I'm doing nothing to hurt them in any way, when I'm not flooding the boards or even creating new threads, so be it.

 

But the fact that "never-die" fans think they are so cool is that there are those of us who die eventually, and if that turns out to be me, I wish you all well.

[imb]

*posts 100 times before playoffs about how it's a crapshoot and he knows the cubs won't win so it doesn't matter*

 

*watches cubs lose in playoffs*

 

*posts 100 times about how he can't take it anymore and he's thinking about not following the team anymore*

[Hairyducked Idiot]

*posts 100 times before playoffs about how it's a crapshoot and he knows the cubs won't win so it doesn't matter*

 

*watches cubs lose in playoffs*

 

*posts 100 times about how he can't take it anymore and he's thinking about not following the team anymore*

 

I never said I "knew the Cubs won't win." I said I knew the odds were against it, though better for them than any other team. Other than that, fair point, but you don't think that this specific way of losing was especially unfun?

[imb]

*posts 100 times before playoffs about how it's a crapshoot and he knows the cubs won't win so it doesn't matter*

 

*watches cubs lose in playoffs*

 

*posts 100 times about how he can't take it anymore and he's thinking about not following the team anymore*

 

I never said I "knew the Cubs won't win." I said I knew the odds were against it, though better for them than any other team. Other than that, fair point, but you don't think that this specific way of losing was especially unfun?

 

definitely was very unfun.

 

honestly i'm just annoyed by your continual over the top melodrama. you spent a week flooding every postseason thread around about how the odds were stacked against us and it didn't matter so just enjoy the ride it was a good year blah blah blah and now you're flooding every post-playoff thread with the cubs broke me i'm thinking about quitting i can't take it any more.

 

just hit the road, you're not breaking any hearts

[Hairyducked Idiot]

*posts 100 times before playoffs about how it's a crapshoot and he knows the cubs won't win so it doesn't matter*

 

*watches cubs lose in playoffs*

 

*posts 100 times about how he can't take it anymore and he's thinking about not following the team anymore*

 

I never said I "knew the Cubs won't win." I said I knew the odds were against it, though better for them than any other team. Other than that, fair point, but you don't think that this specific way of losing was especially unfun?

 

definitely was very unfun.

 

honestly i'm just annoyed by your continual over the top melodrama. you spent a week flooding every postseason thread around about how the odds were stacked against us and it didn't matter so just enjoy the ride it was a good year blah blah blah and now you're flooding every post-playoff thread with the cubs broke me i'm thinking about quitting i can't take it any more.

 

just hit the road, you're not breaking any hearts

 

Better idea. If you don't want to hear what a specific Cubs fan has to say about the Cubs, you put that fan on ignore and move on, instead of misrepresenting what they say and telling them to leave.

[imb]

Better, BETTER idea: quit acting like an 8-year old, figure out whether or not your fragile emotions can handle following a baseball team and quit this woe-is-me act.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Better, BETTER idea: quit acting like an 8-year old, figure out whether or not your fragile emotions can handle following a baseball team and quit this woe-is-me act.

 

Pass. I'm a Cubs fan, I want to talk about the Cubs and the experience of being a Cubs fan on a message board for Cubs fans. The fact that you want to read way too much into it and generally be pushy about what people are and aren't allowed to talk about is not my concern.

[Fred Hornkohl]

I know a couple of kids who are about to get a time out.

[imb]

So does that mean we aren't going to get more hourly updates on your cubs fandom soul-searching, cause that would be pretty sweet.

[erik316wttn]

Better, BETTER idea: quit acting like an 8-year old, figure out whether or not your fragile emotions can handle following a baseball team and quit this woe-is-me act.

 

You really should follow your own advice.

 

This will be my last post in this thread.

[imb]

that has to be purposeful irony or something

[Guest]

But quite frankly, rooting for the Cubs has become so unfun that it may be worth it. People keep trying to equivocate, saying "the best team doesn't always win," but that glosses over the sheer statistical improbability of what keeps happening to the Cubs. No team had ever been swept in the division series after winning this many games (though the Angels might break that record tonight). They've lost 9 straight playoff games, all by multiple runs. They've lost six straight potential pennant clinching games. There's a point where the whole thing jumps the shark, and entire seasons become not fun anymore, and even if they did win the WS it'd only be after 7 months of worrying and discounting and it wouldn't even be that fun.

 

The first six months of the season sure did suck, didn't they. I don't know how anyone could have enjoyed watching their team win 97 games and cruise to the best record in the National League.