Strange, confusing feelings (or Cardinal sins)

so the pitching staff is burned out for the world series

owns the Rangers, I’m rooting for them, even though I always root for the senior circuit. As far as the Cardinals/Brewers are concerned, the Cubs/Cardinals rivalry is now almost non-existent and my disdain for the Brewers runs deep. Go Cardinals!!

Pujols could be the player in MLB who preens the most. I don’t think any team could be more arrogant than the Cards, except maybe the Yankees.

I don’t think those are the real reasons.

An ALCS game? Sure.

I’ve never bought into the hate-the-Cards hysteria anyway. Three historic, working class, solid, heartland USA cities get to be in the October spotlight. What’s wrong with that? And I’m still cheering that the Yankees, Red Sox, and Phils are out!

I’ll pull for the Brewers in the World Series (assuming they get there) — especially if they have to go against the Texas Rangers.

But Brewers players doing that stupid “Beast” thing makes me truly dislike them. And their fans are awful.

So I’m hoping for good, interesting baseball games, and then the Tigers or Rangers to crush the winner.

…I would be pulling for any team to do what he could not: drive the stake and finish-off St. Louis.

However, the Brewers seem to be as obnoxious a bunch as the ‘86 Mets, with fans to match, which I’m sure will be more than enough to make me a Cardinals fan for this series.

to beat the Cards, and whoever wins, I will root against in the WS. I dont want another team in the division to win the series before we do again, but if it was Milwaukee, it wouldnt bother me like the Cards. I respect their players and even TLR, but I dont like them. Its no different than the Yankees. You can say you dont like them, but to say they dont have great players you would be crazy.

….I could never root for the Cards

The people who hate the Brewers did you hate them as an AL team? If you are under 35 I can see why one would b/c they’ve basically never known them as an AL team. I was in college when they switched and am rather blah when it comes to them. Had I been a kid I would, much like I do with the Bears and Vikings.

The Cards on the other hand they’ve always played against. I’ve never liked. I’ve always taken pleasure in them losing.

Every time either team gave up the lead, I found myself laughing at them. Not necessarily cheering for either team (in fact, definitely not cheering for either team), but enjoying watching each team suffer alternately.

Go Tigers/Rangers.

Where I live, it’s 75% Cardinals, 15% Braves, 5% Cubs, and 5% for other MLB teams, when it comes to rooting interests. The Cardinals are more popular than the Tennessee Titans down my way. Of course, that’s comparing baseball and football. I definitely want the Brew Crew to win.

When people find out I’ve been a hard core life long Packers fan but also feel the same way about the Cubs. Normally look @ me a bit odd.

If the Twins ended up in the NL central for some reason, could a little of my massive Viking hate spill over? possibly. So could that be part of it? The intense Bears/Packers contempt.

I think everybody knows how much I hate the Brewers and ole googly eyes Ryan Braun. The 3 teams I hate most in baseball Brewers, and both Sox teams. As for cheering for Fielder if he is a Cub well in my opinion I would rather have him than Pujols. Younger, cheaper (maybe). I will be cheering for the Cards the whole time until 1 little weasel at 2nd base.

Maybe its my current level of frustration with the Cubs, but I’m not going to devote any more emotions to hoping that a rival doesn’t win it all. Its not going to be the Cubs, so who cares. I just want to see some good baseball and be sufficiently entertained.

I am having the same strange, confused feelings although I’m rooting for the Brewers because I’ve disliked the Cardinals longer. I’m an NL person so this disturbing condition will continue as I root for the Brewers or the Cards in the WS.

I only know a couple. Say what you will about their fanbase. But none of them really dislike any of their players.

I wish I could say the same.

I feel the exact same way.

I like to think I’m just rooting against the arrogant Brewers (namely Nyjer Morgan).

Since they are now contending for the NL pennant and the chance to play in the World Series, I’m able to root for them. I have a soft spot for them since I have been to Miller Park, love the Racing Sausages and the fact you can get the very nontraditional ballpark fare, cinnamon roasted nuts, at the park. Plus, I had a grandmother who rooted for Milwaukee baseball (she was a Braves fan back in the day).
 
I want to see a Brewers/Tigers World Series. It’s time for the MIdwest to represent!

1) Rooting for the Cards is one of the demands made by people who have kidnapped your children.

2) the Cards are playing a prison team made up entirely of child molesters and the Cards have to win or the molesters get paroled.

3) every other team in every other organized baseball league in every other country on every inhabited planet has spontaneously combusted. And frankly, you should become a lacrosse fan if that happens.

That is it. That is the list.

I would love for them to win it at Milwaukee and the camera pans on 40,000 Brewers fans looking like they just got a shot of Novocaine.

Do you guys think next season they’ll hand out the world series rings against the Brewers or the Cubs? You know they’ll do it when the Cubs are in town just to further inflate their ego. The Cardinals and Cardinals fans really need their ego’s inflated more because… Cardinals nation never gets what they want. They never get spoiled rotten.

I loved watching the Brewers in the early 80s when they were in the AL and bummed they were moved to the NL. No way can I root for LaRussa and the Cards because of 1982 Series and Cubs fan in me…

This is not as difficult as watching the Astros play the White Sux in the Series a few years back…that was pure evil…

therefore I root for StL once the Cubs are out. I don’t consider Milw anything special except for being Chicago’s biggest suburb.

Outside the division and still in the NL, I go with Phi (yes, against StL because I like the Phils rotation) and over to the AL, well it’s BeanTown. But since they tanked, I’m going with the Rangers this year. TB is also intriguing with how they compete with such a low payroll and being in the ALE.

…if only because I picked them to win the division, so every time they advance into or in the playoffs it makes me look like I know what the hell I’m talking about when it comes to baseball.

That said, I really don’t have any discernible emotional investment either way in either team. I’m not standing up and cheering for anyone in this series. In fact, as confusing as this might sound, I think I’m hoping the Brewers win the NLCS and then lose to the Rangers in World Series. And that’s because the Rangers have rebuilt their organization recently in a manner that I’d very much like to see the Cubs follow.

1) Matt Holliday’s late and dirty slide with spikes high into Starlin Castro.
2) I prefer Miller to Budweiser.

Either way, it seems silly for anyone to say “Cubs fans should root for this team cause…” Cubs fans can cheer for/against whoever the hell they want. That’s more life experience than anything. Being a Cubs fan and the dislike that accompanies it is a personal endeavor. A Cubs fan living in St. Louis is going to have a different perspective than a Cubs fan living in Milwaukee. And that’s okay. At the end of the day, we’re Cubs fans.

The Brewers lose the NLCS to the Cardinals in seven games, preferably on a heartbreaking error.

The Cardinals lose the WS to Rangers in four games.

This would be the worst possible scenario for both teams – the Brewers fail in their shot to even reach the WS. So close, yet so far. The Cardinals, who have already been to the WS many times, just get embarrassed by the Rangers. In both cases, it gives neither organization any bragging rights, and any claims of success can be shot down with a simple “Yabbut you lost.”

If the Cards win the NLCS, it creates the opportunity for Ryan “the right side of the rivalry” Theriot to boot a ball and gain lasting goat status.

I know you guys probably don’t care much about my opinion but I thought I’d share. I don’t really harbor a grudge against any Cub fan who roots against the Cardinals against any opponent. We’re rivals after all. This is understandable. I thought I’d let you know though that, while I feel compelled to “hate” the Cubs organization because of my upbringing, I don’t really dislike any of their players (well except Zambrano, but I don’t think many of you guys like him either). It’s completely different for the Brewers and Reds. There are several players on each team who I truly loathe. What’s worse is the way that their fans seem to embrace their player’s petulant actions. When Yadier Molina got suspended for screaming at an umpire the attitude in St. Louis and over at VEB was that he had gone completely overboard. We forgave him and still supported him but nobody supported that particular action. When Nyjer Morgan Tweeted a completely unprovoked attack at Pujols, Brewers fans (at least the ones over at other-BCB) rushed to his support and if anything it further cemented him as one of their favorite players. When Brandon Phillips made an (again, completely unprovoked) attack calling the Cardinals players “whiny little bitches” Reds fans couldn’t have been happier, and it launched a meme over at RR that survives to this day (and, while Brandon Phillips started the whole thing, and Johnny Cueto ended Jason Larue’s career with repeated kicks to the face, RR remains convinced that that series is perfect evidence of why the Cardinals are the most evil team in professional sports).

I guess what I’m saying is that I understand Cubs fans hating on the Cardinals. In some areas I can definitely see how the Cardinals are annoying (believe me that Larussa’s occasional holier-than-thou quote is as grating to me as it is to any of you). I just hope you guys don’t loathe us purely for being the Cardinals, because I don’t really feel the same way toward you guys.

Also this-BCB is infinitely better than RR and other-BCB (at least when St. Louis is involved. The mere mention of the Cardinals is enough to turn 90% of otherwise-rational fans on those two boards into rabid lunatics).

Life can go back to normal now. Go Rangers!