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These people should also stop whining

I agree wholeheartedly with this earlier post

Here's another list of people who should stop whining:

Citizens of China- You know you live in an oppressive, communist country....it's been that way since you were born.  Get over yourself, sit back and enjoy the human rights abuses.

Home Owners- You knew when you bought your house that the value could potentially go down (though a Realtor would never tell you that) and now you're losing your home, your credit is messed up, you don't have any more savings and you owe $400k on a $150k house.  Don't just stop whining, STFU. 

Detroitans- Detroitites? Detroiters?  Whatever....stop complaining.  You knew when you moved to Detroit and got a job at one of the Big 3 that it was a failed business model and that Japan was leaner, faster and made better cars.  But you went and took that job, became middle class, got a pension, bought a house and were living the American dream.  Now GM is a going concern, and just fired you.  I got 2 words for you: Boo and Hoo.

Cubs Fans- Oh I'm sorry are you one of the Cubs fans from pre-1908??  You became a fan of the team when they played on the West Side Grounds and you pulled your cart and buggy up the park to watch the game?  Yeah, didn't think so.  In your entire life you've never seen the Cubbies win the Series.  In fact you probably haven't even been alive when the Cubs got beat in a World Series.  STOP WHINING about not winning a World Series.  You knew when you first put on that Cubs cap....when you hung that poster of Ryno on your wall...when you chased balls out on Waveland.....when you drank too much in the bleachers....when you bought that Steve Goodman album....when your wife let Ernie Banks marry you....that the Cubs were losers.  Why do you complain about moves that Lou makes?  Why do you care who the second baseman is?  Why do spend money on beer and peanuts at the park? Why are you a Cubs fan if you are just going to complain about losing?

As a former resident of Wrigleyville and one who lived 5 houses from the left field wall on Kenmore, I expected for there to be noise....I loved the noise....in fact, if I had gone to the kitchen to get a beer I would know how fast to get back to the couch from the crowd noise since the TV was about 2 seconds behind the live action.  As long as I live, that place will be my favorite.

I expected noise, I expected loud drunks walking through the neighborhood at 2am, I expected traffic (tons of it).  The problem isn't any of those things.  The problem is things that aren't part of the package.  Graffiti (a problem anywhere in the city frankly), public urination (with the number of bars in the neighborhood and port-a-johns this shouldn't be as big a problem as it is), fights and concerts by crappy faux-Country bands (I had no problem with Buffett, Police or the Piano Men as they were all agreed upon).

Yes I know there is a ballpark at 1060 W Addison, yes I expect noise, traffic etc.  That doesn't mean the Cubs can do whatever they like and I have to take it.  It's a neighborhood and all residents should have a say as to what happens there.  The Cubs are residents as much as I am and if they would like to have concerts they need to ask the other residents just as I would have to ask the neighborhood if I wanted to add an extension on my house or dig up a huge tree in my yard.  It's a give and take relationship and if one party is doing most of the taking then don't act surprised when the other party has something to say about it.

 

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As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Mar 12, 2009 12:16 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

So basically you're saying that..

Fukudome should be in camp and that we’re getting peavy?

by xene on Mar 12, 2009 12:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

i think that's what

Worf has been trying to say

There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help......"--Bill Buckner

by laidbackliam on Mar 12, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hey, Willie!

This guy stole your avatar!

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 12:24 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I'll expect my monthly royalty check deposited in my

Swiss bank account. Account numbers to follow.

"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris

by willie mays hayes' gloves on Mar 12, 2009 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Is this post about

Brian Roberts? ’Cause I say, like, yeah, lets totally get him.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

by copes006 on Mar 12, 2009 12:33 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Roberts? Peavy?

This post was about Soriano’s range in left! You people infuriate me!!!

by Kooter on Mar 12, 2009 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

If you start telling us to pound sand, you're going to raise a few eyebrows.

"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris

by willie mays hayes' gloves on Mar 12, 2009 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

not too offensive

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Mar 12, 2009 12:37 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

By the way Cooter, do you also like

fast cars and fast women?

"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris

by willie mays hayes' gloves on Mar 12, 2009 12:38 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

And are the Duke boys your best buddies?

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's a free country.

You can wear whatever kind of shorts you like.

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Only if

you are her cousin.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

by copes006 on Mar 12, 2009 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Kooter with K....

…has been my nickname since high school, my last name starts with a K (it’s Czech and hard to pronounce and Kooter is easier to say). Cooter from the Dukes of Hazzard was a badass though

by Kooter on Mar 12, 2009 12:46 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

He sure kept the ol' General Lee runnin'.

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 12:50 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I was refering to Cooter from the movie "Stripes". He said he liked fast cars

and fast women, so the guys i his car club called him Cooter. I won’t call you the same name that Ox called Cooter in the movie out of respect to the avatar.

"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris

by willie mays hayes' gloves on Mar 12, 2009 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oh, man. We just crossed our Cooter streams. How embarassing.

I can’t remember the name Ox called him anyway.

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 1:02 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

The Dork.

"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris

by willie mays hayes' gloves on Mar 12, 2009 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

We just crossed our Cooter streams.

The Quote of the day.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Mar 12, 2009 1:10 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Funny Pics / Internet High Five

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

BTW SWL, It's not cheating....

….cuz it’s YOUR dog.

Fukudometer: Created 3/31/08 Wrigley Debut 4/5/08 WGN and Japan TV Debut 4/6/08 Sun Times Debut: 4/20/08 Coffee Table Debut: 7/17/08 (http://www.wearecubsfans.com)

by Fuk-U-Meter on Mar 12, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Somehow I just know...

…there’s one of those “motivational” pictures out there with that phrase on it. And, no, I do NOT want to see it.

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bad idea.

Unless your goal truly was to show that prehistoric bitch how you do things downtown.

make*art

by neverAcquiesce on Mar 12, 2009 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Image doesn't show up.

Lemme guess: Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

No, just the guys blasting Gozer.

It was that or a photoshop of them wrangling the spirit of Jesus.

make*art

by neverAcquiesce on Mar 12, 2009 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm pretty sure the guys in the car club called him "the Cruiser".

Am I missing some joke here?

MLBMilestone.com - following the numbers to Cooperstown

by D98 on Mar 12, 2009 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

isnt this post

whining about those Kooter wants to not whine?

"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic

by Cubbie-Tim on Mar 12, 2009 12:50 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Mar 12, 2009 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Sarcasm or not....

I have to admit—hopefully this doesn’t make me a complete loser—the part about the Chinese, home owners, and residents of Detroit did make me laugh. Maybe that makes me only a partial loser.

But just for the record, when I first became a Cubs fan, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and I certainly didn’t know about the team’s World Series drought. I was seven years old. For those of us who became fans as young kids (probably that includes most of us), we all went into it with a child-like innocence. I mean, when they lost to San Diego in the ‘84 NLCS, I was upset, but with the innocence of a 7-year old, I told myself and my inconsolable father that "we’ll win next year!"

"Don't complain to me about the stormy weather, boys. Just bring the ship into port." --Steve Stone, September 2004

by ctcoff99 on Mar 12, 2009 1:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

That's a good point about becoming a Cubs fan.

I was probably around seven years old, too, when I really started getting into baseball. And I come from a family of Cubs fans, so I really had no choice in the matter.

"That little kid at second base - he is after a job, isn't he?" ~ Lou Piniella, 3/9/09

by dat cubfan daver on Mar 12, 2009 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Kooter stop whining

unless you moved to Wrigleyville before Wrigley was there, which is probably impossible, Stop Whining!

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by tony412 on Mar 12, 2009 3:20 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Wrigley field has been there since 1914… 95 years…

Unless you are over 113 and been living their all your life…
STOP WHINING…

That’s as moronic as the fools that move next to O’Hare airport and
bitch and moan about jet noise…

- Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
- Germans?
- Forget it, he's rolling.

by Endrick on Mar 12, 2009 6:20 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

People do things like this all the time...

Here in San Diego, there’s been a group of “concerned citizen” that are upset about MCAS Miramar’s helecopter/fighter jet noise lowering property values and disturbing them in the evenings/mornings. It’s like the entire Military Base wasn’t there when they decided to move there….dumb. The worst part is, the governments (local/state/federal) take the time to actually let these people hold hearings about it, and of course the news media makes sure we all know about this terrible problem.

Shut up or move.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Mar 12, 2009 6:26 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Just a big ol -1 for this post.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Mar 12, 2009 8:26 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I call it the BMW affect

(B)itch, (M)oan and (W)hine

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Mar 13, 2009 1:29 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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