Go Cubs Go song

[davearm2]

The people complaining about "Go Cubs Go" "The Chicken Dance" being cheesy and terrible or whatever clearly don't get it.

 

It was never meant to be some complex and brilliant timeless masterpiece, people.

 

It was meant to be whimsical and fun and, yes, even cheesy. Mission accomplished.

 

If you're too stuffy and bourgeois to enjoy something so uncultured for what it is, then what are you doing at a baseball game wedding in the first place. Go to the opera or the art institute instead.

Haha yes if you're looking down your nose at folks goofing around and having fun at a wedding, then you're stuffy.

 

My advice would be, next time stay home and replay William and Kate on the DVR, and pretend you're royalty too.

 

Or better yet, move to England and become a cricket fan.

 

You couldn't have missed the point any more than you did

Is that my fault or yours? It seems like you're probably being critical of both Go Cubs Go and the Chicken Dance. But it's far from clear from your post.

[davearm2]

after seeing that davearm2 supports the playing of the song i have changed my position and now believe that it should NOT be played.

Some people here are really good at zinging me. They're often creative, hilarious, and/or scathing.

 

You're not one of those people, FYI.

 

In fact seeing you trying to slam me is kinda like watching Soriano whiff at a slider in the dirt: so pathetic it's funny.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man this thread is full of killjoys.

 

Also, I like the Eddie Vedder song...it's lyrics are no more or less ridiculous than the Go Cubs Go lyrics. I'm not sure how you can be ok with Go Cubs Go but not like the Eddie Vedder song based on it's lyrics.

 

 

Personally, I can't stand it because it's paced like a funeral dirge, I can't stand Vedder's muttered crooning, and it's filled with some really torturous and badly written lyrics. "Go Cubs Go" is very cheesy and simplistic, but it at least works as a song, especially as one people can sing along to. Vedder's song only "works" that way just because of the chorus.

[SouthSideRyan]

I like both. The Vedder song seems more passionate.

[erik316wttn]

I think "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" should be played after every home loss.

[DiamondMind]

We are gonna be made fun of up until we win a World Series. Might as well embrace it.

 

I disagree with this so so so so so much. Refuse to embrace it.

 

I'm just saying if there's ONE team in sports that needs to tone down celebrations, even for minor things like Soriano watching home runs, it's us. We're the singular team in all of sports that needs that assassin mentality.

 

After D Rose lost to the Heat I read he holed himself up in his house for two weeks and wouldn't speak to anyone - just ordered pizza's and watched DVD's. Call me weird, call me insane, I probably am. But my insane point remains - I just want more focus, more intensity. Less merchandising less cheesy songs less day games, etc. It's not the best analogy but who comes to mind if the question is asked, "who or whom is most like that on the Cubs"? Anyone? I realize emotions don't win ball games, and I don't want to get into a sabr argument here, I just want a sea change in the entire attitude of this team, and for some reason that song just grinds my gears beyond belief. It sums up a lot of issues to me.

 

I want to WIN.

Edited July 26, 2011 by DiamondMind

[Sammy Sofa]

"Embracing" it is weird, but so is getting furious. Who cares what other fans think of the Cubs fans and the Cubs themselves? Do people really think a WS win would change the mind of people who enjoy mocking the Cubs and their fans? "Man, I thought their fans were and dumb and only went to the games to get drunk, but boy, that WS win sure proved me wrong!" Did people stop making fun of and hating Philly fans after the Phillies won their last WS? How about Boston fans? Of course not.

[DiamondMind]

"Embracing" it is weird, but so is getting furious. Who cares what other fans think of the Cubs fans and the Cubs themselves? Do people really think a WS win would change the mind of people who enjoy mocking the Cubs and their fans? "Man, I thought their fans were and dumb and only went to the games to get drunk, but boy, that WS win sure proved me wrong!" Did people stop making fun of and hating Philly fans after the Phillies won their last WS? How about Boston fans? Of course not.

 

I hear you. I do. I understand your point.

 

But I think you're lying to yourself if you say you truly don't care how your team is perceived.

 

And as for Philly and Boston, well, they have a comeback to those jeers now don't they?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

But I think you're lying to yourself if you say you truly don't care how your team is perceived.

Say what?

[SouthSideRyan]

So no cheering til the world series?

[Sammy Sofa]

"Embracing" it is weird, but so is getting furious. Who cares what other fans think of the Cubs fans and the Cubs themselves? Do people really think a WS win would change the mind of people who enjoy mocking the Cubs and their fans? "Man, I thought their fans were and dumb and only went to the games to get drunk, but boy, that WS win sure proved me wrong!" Did people stop making fun of and hating Philly fans after the Phillies won their last WS? How about Boston fans? Of course not.

 

I hear you. I do. I understand your point.

 

But I think you're lying to yourself if you say you truly don't care how your team is perceived.

 

And as for Philly and Boston, well, they have a comeback to those jeers now don't they?

 

I guess? And no, I really don't care if there are people out there who don't like the Cubs and their fans. That's an inherent part of fandom. It's not like Bears fans are going to suddenly be quiet and cowed towards Packers fans if the Cheeseheads bring up last season. I really don't see how winning a WS makes something that you apparently think is unbearable and drives you into a rage suddenly into something you just shrug off and don't care about. If anything, a WS win would just intensify the anti-Cubs sentiment. And how long is a "comeback" good for? OK, so they win a WS. But then they don't win the year after that. Or the year after that. Is there some threshold that is crossed in terms of time away from the WS win that you start flipping out again?

 

It just seems like a lot of stress over something I have zero control over. Sure, I'll get a bit heated and talk [expletive] with opposing fans sometimes, but it's nothing that sticks with me.

[Derwood]

In Little League I played right field

‘Cause no-one my age could hit the ball there

And my best friend led the team in hits

And I was lucky if I got to bat

Hitless through my childhood years

My baseball dreams all disappeared, but...

 

I always wished that I could be a Cubby

Wrigley Field, summer afternoon

In the top of the ninth I’d catch a long fly

To save the game like I could never do

 

And maybe someday I can be a Cubby

Even only for a day or two

I’ll sit on the bench, ‘cause that’s where I play the best

But my heart will be beating Cubby blue

 

But I always wished that I could be a Cubby

Wrigley Field, summer afternoon

From the bleachers to the stands

Every woman child and man

Will stand and sing with voices loud and true

 

And maybe someday we can watch the Cubbies

Win the World Series once again

Bases loaded in the ninth, I’ll step up to the plate

And hit the ball to Waveland Avenue

To win one for the Cubby blue

[Sammy Sofa]

Ugh, "Cubby."

[Old Style]

No more cheering until the Cubs win their 28th World Series.

[Derwood]

because there is no way to celebrate a win outside of a terribly written song

[SouthSideRyan]

It's not the quality of the song that has DM all red-faced.

[Sammy Sofa]

because there is no way to celebrate a win outside of a terribly written song

 

So we'll chalk that up there with "Derwood thinks people are saying 'Go Cubs Go' is actually a good song" on the "things Derwood has completely made up"-pile from this thread.

[Derwood]

because there is no way to celebrate a win outside of a terribly written song

 

So we'll chalk that up there with "Derwood thinks people are saying 'Go Cubs Go' is actually a good song" on the "things Derwood has completely made up"-pile from this thread.

 

actually, what I'm saying is that I'm being critical of the song, not that people like to sing it

[Sammy Sofa]

So then what was the point of the "Chicken Dance" comparison? You dropped that on us as if people were defending the quality of "Go Cubs Go." Or the post I quoted where you're seemingly saying that people are arguing the "Go Cubs Go" is the only way people can or should celebrate after a win? You're countering points that nobody has made.

[Derwood]

So then what was the point of the "Chicken Dance" comparison? You dropped that on us as if people were defending the quality of "Go Cubs Go." Or the post I quoted where you're seemingly saying that people are arguing the "Go Cubs Go" is the only way people can or should celebrate after a win? You're countering points that nobody has made.

 

 

Chicken Dance post was in reaction to someone saying that Go Cubs Go shouldn't be criticized for being stupid because it was intentionally written to be stupid

 

The other post was in response to Old Style/other people's hyperbolic "I guess we should never celebrate unless we win 100 world series" nonsense

[Sammy Sofa]

Still doesn't make any sense. In no way does Old Style's comment even remotely hint at "Go Cubs Go" being the only way people should celebrate a win.

 

And yes, the "Chicken Dance" complaint is still totally redundant, as is pointing out that a song is cheesy when it was obviously written to be cheesy. Congratulations, you can recognize the painfully obvious. Water is also wet and fire is hot.

[Derwood]

Still doesn't make any sense. In no way does Old Style's comment even remotely hint at "Go Cubs Go" being the only way people should celebrate a win.

 

And yes, the "Chicken Dance" complaint is still totally redundant, as is pointing out that a song is cheesy when it was obviously written to be cheesy. Congratulations, you can recognize the painfully obvious. Water is also wet and fire is hot.

 

thanks, gooney

[Sammy Sofa]

Step correct next time, hoss.

[davearm2]

Chicken Dance post was in reaction to someone saying that Go Cubs Go shouldn't be criticized for being stupid because it was intentionally written to be stupid

Neither was written to be stupid. They're written to be whimsical. You're the one equating whimsical with stupid. Which in turn makes you come off as stuffy and a killjoy.

 

HTH

[Old Style]

The other post was in response to Old Style/other people's hyperbolic "I guess we should never celebrate unless we win 100 world series" nonsense

Derwood must have DiamondMind on ignore.