
Blogging icon and the Internet’s most famous St. Louis Cardinals fan Will Leitch recently penned a piece for Sports on Earth about the realization that some of us Best Fans in Baseball are dealing with – people f*cking hate the Cardinals. I didn’t notice it so much after the Cards won the World Series last year, as people just sort of nodded at their win and moved right along.
Now, though, as they’ve once again knocked off the team with the best record in baseball and are up 1-0 on the San Francisco Giants in the NLCS, people are really starting to show their hatred. Especially on Twitter. Who knew that people could be so mean on the Internet?
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Hate away, I guess. Just remember that I’m a fragile soul.
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If you held a gun to my head and told me to choose between the Cardinals winning Game 2 and Peyton Manning winning my fantasy matchup for me tonight, I’d have to take a little time to think about it. Honestly, I still don’t know.
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The answer is obvious: You want your FF team to win. The cards already stole a game in San Fran.
I look forward in reading about your interview with Eve.
Young Tom would totally get down with her.
So the Cards are the new Yankees now?
More popular than Jon Hamm? Everything’s coming up Leitch!
Fucking Cardinals. Fucking Leitch. Fucking fucking umpire that doesn’t know the damn infield fly rule.
YES I AM A BITTER CUBS FAN WHY DO YOU ASK.
It’s okay, we’re gonna be on the right track in a year or two. :)
Reasons I hate the Cardinals:
1.) Rivalry. I’m a Cubs fan.
2.) Tony LaRussa was and continues to be a shitweasel. His taint lingers on.
3.) In recent years, they get every… f*cking… break.
4.) Sneakily annoying fans.
I don’t think I’d care about the Cardinals at all if we weren’t rivals though. Shitweasel LaRussa and ridiculous luck aside, the Cards have to be the most irrelevant, boring, hyper-successful/storied franchise in all of sports. They aren’t even the painful kind of boring to watch like the Spurs dynasty. Well, Buck and McCarver do their damnedest to make it painful, but I digress…
I’m neutral on the Cardinals (I’m a Phillies fan), if I have any animosity towards them it’s the “we’re the best fans in baseball” self-aggrandizing attitude. But they’re not as bad as Yankees or Red Sox fans.
*sits down criss-cross applesauce in post*
Y’know, Burnsy, I don’t hate you. In fact, I like you a lot better than a lot of other bloggers in the back. What I hate is this notion that you Cardinals fans are the BEST. You’re not. What you are is the best at getting Legacies and former players into a national broadcast booth. Though maybe you’re not as good as GEORGE was; he’s pretty good.
*WL cuts microphone*