It is the virtual world of the 21st Century. Out here in the hinterland at the edge where the Midwest has become the West or Rocky Mountains, I am a Cub Fan.

I don’t care how the media frames their presentation of what I know. When we win the World Series I will have friends new and many old.

Bleeding Cubbie Blue!

before the term was coined. This is no big deal. Call us whatever you want.
We were traveling to visiting parks for years and years.

Just asking, you know… ;-)

They like to call their plastic stadium “Baseball Heaven”. What a load of garbage.

I like their new fanbase name: the “Black Hole.”

is a sleuth

A bad football team without a quarterback.

Sorry. Please don’t hurt me. It was just a joke.

There is a quote from Ben Affleck that bothers me. He said “The Cubs are the new Red Sox.” Which leads me to believe that the Red Sox are for whatever reason “first”. Bah. Stuff like this just makes me really dislike the Red Sox, which is unfortunate, because I used to be a Red Sox supporter. And to hell with ESPN and their never ending east coast bias.

My Cubdom for a WS Championship!

since it lets one distingusih between the fan-of-the-week and those of us who have had a long, cold winter or two ninety-nine, though there is the weird religious overtone thing. (I get this picture of the church scene from Blues Brothers, except all the church-goers are wearing blue and red. And many of them are tipsy. And you have to replace James Brown with Harry Carey.)

‘Cubs fans’ is usually acceptable, especially when preceeded by ‘long-suffering.’

Perfect.

Also because then we’d need a national defense force, and the paperwork on that sort of thing is horribly complicated. Seriously. Take your taxes and multiply by… a lot. And that’s just the application.

Given the number of fans who attend games in Florida.

point of having shirts and other items emblazened with the “nation” term. I agree that is a a generic term and the universal appeal of the cubs overruns such a limiting term. I just kind of ignore it.

is due to it being a college town/city. With all the schools out there, more kids from around the country head to Boston (I went to BC from Indianapolis). The population of Boston at least doubles from August-May with the college kids.

Now, that delusional capacity is part of the reason I came back to the Midwest. They take their ‘Nation’ thing quite seriously, which is unfortunate.

is simply cos they’re from New York. Count up the number of NY hats you see then count how many are actually navy and white.

Thanks Fred Durst. You suck.

a damn popular team though. The Yankees certainly have the most fans nationwide though. Red Sox are probably second and we’re probably a close third—although a World Championship or two would likely make us closer.

Remember, most fans are just bandwaggoners. The Yankees pick up all kinds of fans because of their exposure and all their championships. But in the 1980s, the Mets actually challenged the Yankees for nationwide popularity. But two world titles can’t compete with 26, especially when the last one was twenty years earlier.

The Dodgers were probably the most popular team in America from the early 60s (after the Yankee Dynasty collapsed) to the mid-70s. Growing up, guys like Garvey, Sutton, Cey and Lopes were on TV all the time. So my point is, these things change.

Sounds like a bad chain restaurant to me. LOL