Sunday, May 15, 2005

Cubs Fans

I went to the 2-hour, 40-minute rain delay Saturday, and got to see 3 innings of baseball before my babysitter's double-OT rate kicked in. Watched the rest of the game on TV (baseball, the only game you can watch at the park AND on your couch) and enjoyed it.

But during the delay, spent a fair amount of time observing Cub fans. They're not as annoying as Red Sox and Yankees fans, but they try, real hard. True to midwestern roots, they apply a straightforward, earnest, nice guy approach. One might even say they are "cute". But it's still annoying.

Case in point. While enjoying our grilled dogs in the concourse, a couple wearing Cubs jerseys and Cubs caps walks by, with fake ivy around their necks. I point this out to Mrs. DM without comment, to get her reaction. She is a lifelong Reds fan, sportswriter in college, but a girl nonetheless, and a fan of cute things generally. So I didn't know what kind of reaction I'd get. I waited with anticipation.

"Losers", she said, "God, Cubs fans are annoying."

1 Comments:

At 12:27 PM, Blogger David said...

Whoa... You can't ask someone who could be or might have been a Reds fan at some time (let alone a lifelong fan) about Cubs fans! The Reds are one of those sports teams that always goes into the season where analysts say they have a good shot.... they start out well... and then usually they blow it themselves. That's a biased view you got from Mrs DM. =o)

Although i will say Ivy around the neck is much less worse then the cheesehead hats. The Cubs fans are saying they miss the Ivy... the Packer fans are saying thier brains are made of CHEESE!!

 

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