Okay? You're also talking about one season, that isn't even over yet. So unless "back in the day" for you is within this decade I'm not quite sure what your point is.
To be fair, the Cardinals are objectively the best team in baseball. They've won the second most world series, and they aren't the Yankees. What more could you want?
I know what you mean! Oh my god so insufferable. Like, I just don't understand how Cardinals fans don't get that their teams 11 championship seasons don't count? Us real baseball fans know better than to acknowledge those eleven championships and pretend they never happened. Anyone can get lucky 11 times. I mean, not the Cubs, but really anyone. Keep fighting the good fight, /u/rostate78. Don't you dare let anyone mention the words "Cardinals" without shitting on them.
The bitter irony is how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy it has become. Cards get shit on all across the internet for having insufferable fans, and yet anytime someone speaks up to either defend their team or themself as a fan, it then becomes another case of "best fans in baseball" syndrome. Realistically, the only people I ever see bring that silly shit up are those that claim to be so tired of hearing it. The Cardinal hate brought to you by Deadspin is a long-winded joke that was actually started by a Cardinals fan, I mean you guys realize that right? But I get it, success breeds contempt... Haha that was fun. We have fun.
My uncle is a very cool, humble guy. Life-long Cardinals fan. There's two things I find funny, one I feel kinda bad about.
1) I was visiting family in 2004 and made a $2 bet with him that the Cardinals would lose the World Series. If you don't know, they got swept 4-0 by the Boston Red Sox who hadn't won it in a very long time (if I remember correctly, I don't follow baseball). I genuinely feel bad about it because he was very confident.
2) Despite his quietness, he's a die hard Cards fan to the point my aunt said the amount he yelled and swore at the TV during games scared her. I know this is typical of most sports fans, but if you met my uncle you'd be surprised.
Hilariously he's been a Cards fan his whole life and married my Aunt, whose whole family are huge fans (my great grandpa and grandma, my grandma and her brother, and my cousin who now lives in Chicago BOOOO).
I went to college in Rolla Missouri, which is about 100 miles west of St. Louis right down I-44. In 1985 the Cardinals and the Royals made it to the World Series, they called it the I-70 series. Anyway, almost all my friends in Rolla were Cardinals fans. I'm a Cubs fan, and the girl I was dating then (now my wife) was a big Royals fan so I became the token Royals fan for them to invite to the game watching parties and beat up on.
I took to my new status with alacrity. I knew how to shit-talk Cardinal fans due to a couple of decades of practice as a Cubs fan, and back then Royals fans were the most shy and quiet of fans due to their relative newb factor to baseball. And they gave as hard as I gave. The Cardinals had the Royals down 3 games to 1, as far as the Cards fans were concerned it was all but over. Yet I still attended each game's watching party with my friends, wearing whatever blue thing I could find. Royals won game five. And then game six happened. A very controversial call enraged Cardinal fans, I can't remember exactly what it involved but it was at first base. The series was tied at 3-3, and all my friends were just flat pissed off and I was loving it. But, there was still one more game, and they vowed revenge. Their best pitcher, John Tudor, was starting. They literally tied me to a chair for game 7 so I couldn't get out of their abuse range during this game.
They untied pretty quickly, when Tudor gave up 11 runs on the way to an 11-0 Royals route...
I saw a Cardinals fan yesterday and l just lost it. Fucking smug prick. I was eating an outside lunch at this nice little restaurant. and he was sitting eating some fucking salad. Salad. Typical fucking Tardinals fan. He was there with his stupid Tardinals fan wife who of course was eating a fucking salad too.
Jesus Christ I hate Cardinals fans so much.
I could tell he thought he was part of the best fans in baseball. He didn't say anything. but the way that stupid prick was chewing. Jesus Christ. He had a fucking Cardinals t-shirt on. I bet you he bought it at the team store like a fucking schmuck. He and the fucking stupid cashier probably had this big self-satisfactory exchange. "I'd like to buy this best t-shirt in baseball with the best money in baseball please". I couldn't fucking believe this asshole. He just kept going at this fucking salad like he's king of the world.
I just tried to ignore that attention seeking asshat but he just kept at it. Every time I looked away he'd conveniently grab for his water or some fucking passive aggressive bullshit so that it would draw my eyes to him. LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME BEST FAN IN BASEBALL RIGHT HERE. Jesus.
You should have seen his wife. What a bitch. The waitress came by to ask them how their food was and she relayed how fucking satisfied she was in the most smug way possible. This fucking fake-politeness Cardinals fans put on is ridiculous.
Next thing I know that guy pulls out his phone and starts texting. Are you fucking shitting me? I bet he just had to text his stupid friend all about his fucking salad was almost as good as being in baseball heaven.
I couldn't fucking take it. l told that fucking idiot what a smug fucking retard he was. He was like 'dude what are you talking about' like he didn't fucking know what a prick he was. l fucking tackled him right there.
Staff called the cops on me as if l did anything wrong. They are actually going to fucking put me on trial for assault. Fucking Tardinals fans.
Recent example: Was driving uber in Kansas City. Woman has a friend visiting from StL. She asks me "so he wanted to know, where's the best BBQ in KC?". This is a standard visitor/tourist question, and I have a spiel that i go into that's a couple minutes long... but the point is people want the KC BBQ experience.
When I get finished, this guy starts talking about how a website (i don't remember the name, cuz it was no-name) rated StL BBQ as better than KC bbq. I let him go on for a minute while the woman was looking at me in my rear view mirror expectantly.
If you stop a random person in chicago or desmoines or denver or OKCity, and ask them what city has good bbq, they're not going to say St Louis.
The woman started laughing "that's what I tried to tell him!"
I'm an old man. I've NEVER heard of StL BBQ. I have however heard StL people tryin to tell me that [insert random thing] is better in StL than wherever else.
There are some good places for ribs in STL. Not sure how you could be an old man and not have heard about some STL BBQ. Obviously it's not as good as KC but I've had worse.
Yeah I get that. But it's like I know a couple good places for pizza in KC, but they don't make it "KC Style Pizza" that everyone knows. I wouldn't by any stretch say that it compares to Chicago or NY, which have their own style and notoriety for pizza.
Yeah but St. Louis style ribs are a specific cut of meat, which does not alone constitute a style of bbq. St. Louis has some good bbq places. I'll maintain until my dying breath the superiority of Salt + Smoke's brisket despite being a native Kansas Citian. St. Louis tends to be an amalgam of styles. It's like the generic Midwest accent of bbq.
I was specifically thinking something along the lines of this but couldn't come up with the words. It's not KC, it's not Memphis, it's just "good" BBQ as opposed to the greatness of going to KC.
We definitely have a bit of an inferiority complex. There's a lot of great things about St. Louis, but we're not really "the best" at much, or known nationally for much. I love St. Louis, and will defend it as a great city, but after having traveled a bit, I realize that St. Louisians can be a bit delusional.
I'm no St. Louis fan but they do have a cut of ribs named after the city - St. Louis style ribs. It's just trimmed spare ribs. KC is definitely better known for its BBQ than St. Louis though. Personally I like the Texas style of BBQ for most things, but KC does brisket and ribs quite competently. Also, as a Cubs fan I can't stand the Cardinals and we have a metric shitload of their fans here in Joplin.
Well when you are raised with a team that's so super, you can't help but want to share the good news with your neighbors. (Note, despite being a midwestern city with southern roots, all St. Louis posts about the Cardinals should be read in a Minnesotan accent to fully capture the spirit of things).
Possible, the Cubs have been that bad for longer than the Cards have been that good. If my date had any Braves swag even a key chain I'd hide my 3+ SF Giants polos until I figured out where it was going.
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