Friday, July 6, 2007

A Great Mystery Solved

I mean no offense to people from Chicago with what I am about to write. Being a Nationals fan and someone who cheers for the hometown team no matter what I can somewhat relate to Cubs fans from Chicago. Of course Wrigley Field is also full of yuppies that care nothing for the game and just want to sit around and throw trash on the field. I guess a lot of Cubs fans throw themselves on the field.


Some teams just travel well. The Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, and Mets always bring their fans, but those teams win. The Cubs haven’t won anything that anyone can remember. The last time they made it to the playoffs they lost because their second baseman couldn’t pick up a routine grounder. Don’t even try given me that crap about Bartman. I don’t understand how one foul ball that still had to be caught by stone hands Alou can lead to an eight run inning. The Cubs just don’t win, and they don’t win in funny fashion. They are a comedy to all baseball fans that are not Cubs fans. So it has always confused me as to why someone would bandwagon with the Cubs. Why would someone choose to be a loser?


I can understand wanting to follow a winning team, but choosing to be a Cubs fan is like choosing to be a Devil Rays fan, or have a root canal without anesthesia. It just never made much sense until I attended three games against the Cubs this week. I saw many people who should be eating chicken heads at the local fair all wearing Cubbies blue. So the only possible answer is bandwagon Cubs fans are born losers. They are just used to losing. It is what they do. Instead of being a poser and cheering for the Yankees or some other team that has won the World Series in anyone’s lifetime they don’t hide their identity. They are just losers.


The funniest conversation I heard was between a bandwagon Red Sox fan and a bandwagon Cubs fun discussing the amount of fans in the stadium. The Cubs fan was trying to figure out the percentage of Cubs to Nationals fans, and the Red Sox fan claimed there were more Red Sox fans in RFK than Nationals fan. There is always someone in every building in the world wearing a Red Sox hat. So the fact that this guy saw another one must mean there are most than those that came to cheer for the Nationals. Quick math here before I get to what the Cubs fan decided was the ratio of Cubs to Nats fans. The Nationals have 15,000 season ticket holds and last nights attendance was 22,000. 7,000 of the people were not season ticket holders. It is from this 7,000 were the Cubs fans were most likely to come from. The Cubs fan claimed that it was 60% Cubs fans at RFK. This of course is not possible, and I would say it was more like 20%. But Cubs fans are born losers and can’t count.

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