Wish I had gotten tix earlier in the year….Glad you had fun!

and man, do they have thin skins. The only thing that I saw there that was a smidge over the line was SWL’s cheese grater post, and even that you have to take in context (it was in reply to a picture of a dead bear cub lying in the road). ANY praise of the Cubs or criticism of the Brewers from people from our board was seen as evil evil trolling, when our posters were being quite civil compared to the trolls that come out of the woodwork over here.

But that was to be expected. You said nothing to incite them, but they are pissed off. From what my friend in that area was telling me, Brewers fans were expecting nothing less tha a first-place coronation.

What’s happened so far is their worst nightmare with thousands of Cubs fans around tham.

IF ONLY this was the outcome in SD when the Cubs visit…..

You take the high road. If you show up uninvited at your friend’s house and it isn’t a good time, its bad manners to just hang out and make fun of him for his water heater blowing up. Go away and come back to talk at a better time. There are going to be times that it isn’t a good idea to be over at our friend’s house on the Brewers blog posting. This is one of those times. Always remember that it is their house and you are a guest there. Act like you would want them to act. How annoying would it be if we had just lost two in a row to the Brewers at Wrigley with Z and Harden pitching and the Brew fans were all over this blog asking us how we were doing with it. They could have the best intentions and they would be instigating. Just use your head and remember that you are a guest, so have good manners. Post again a couple of weeks after the sweep… :)

explains a heck of a lot.

some sad human who calls themselves "Santo’s wooden legs"

Yes, our beloved SWL….a sad human

Unreal. 6 jackasses this week ruin the reputation of all Cubs fans.

They don’t even have 1/2 of Kenosha and Racine.

Upper WI has a LOT of Cubs fans due to WGN.

And the bitterness was there even when both teams were irrelevant.

I think jealousy is a factor, but there are also some “bad apples” that make the rest of us look bad. The larger the fan base, the greater the number of bad apples—although the percentage might be the same, it gives a different perception.

I think there is a perception that fans at Wrigley Field are not there for baseball. I’m not saying this is true, but the perception is there that Wrigley Field is a frat-like party atmosphere. Add this perception with the many telecasts on WGN and it equals the kind of fanbase that Marty Brennaman so famously described.

I’ve been to Wrigley many times, and to some extent the perception is reality. However, I would say that it is no different then any other stadium, it just gets more attention.

...the Red Sox and Yankees fans do the same thing.

However, I have been to Rays/Yankees games at the Trop. The 3 game Cubs series was (by far) the best attended series in franchise history. Over 120,000 for the three game weekday set, at least half if not more Cub fans.

The Superstation has created quite a national, well-traveled fan base. I believe lots of people want on the bandwagon when we finally break through. I’m sure some of the resentment stems from that.

my wife is one. I’ve been to Angels Stadium dozens of times, and I get a lot of “Oh, I cheer for the Cubs too” when I’m there. When the Cubs played there, I saw lots of people wearing both Cubs and Angels merchandise at the same time.

Giant fans only hate the Dodgers. Other than that, you’re right. They don’t care who you cheer for, as long as it’s not the Dodgers.

Actually, that’s not quite true. My wife has discovered that they hate the Angels since 2002. So just those two.

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/wide/index.ssf?/sports/wide/cc_ad.html

nice thing to do. When Mark Prior rehabed in Des Moines a few years ago he took out a full page ad in the Des Moines Register to thank the city and the fans who came out to see him play. At the time I thought that was pretty cool too.

Only reason I’m posting a reply is to eliminate confusion for those who might not realize that I’m a Cubs fan.

Where did that come from? Looks like you didn’t read the fanpost title.;)

The cards have a great history. However, over the last 100 years the Cubs don’t have a history that’s even close to comparable. Sure they have won 10,000 games, but zero championships mean that success has been hard to come by. It’s like saying the Germans have a successful military because they can compete in World Wars. (Sorry I’m a history teacher)

The Brewers have had little success within the last 25 years, but that has to do more with salary cap, and the smallest market in all of baseball, more than anything else.

As for next years rotation, it’s still far too early to tell. Gallardo will be back, Parra will be a good number 2-3, and if Sheets, Sabathia, and Gagne all go, that frees up a lot of money for free agents. Also, you don’t know what kind of money Attanasio is willing to throw at Sheets and/or Sabathia.

The future is bright for both teams, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

I just got done reading the entire comment log – I still have no idea what that was about. Anyways, Shanghai, thanks for the guide – I think the whole point of the SB Nation was to encourage dialog between different groups of fans. And while most of us are Cubs fans here, I’d like to think we’d be a welcoming bunch, who, while we might like to joke around with some good folks from Milwaukee or St. Louis, know what constitutes crossing the line between a joke and insulting rhetoric.