Comments on: Pretty much everyone hates the Cardinals, right?

By: skane2005

skane2005 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:22:17 +0000

Hey Natslady…cry me a river. Don’t complain because Phillies fans buy 80% of the tickets in your usually empty stadium. Those fans essentially paid your right fielders inflated salary. Maybe you should focus on your GM’s decision making skills instead of complaining about another team’s fanbase.

By: dfrebert

dfrebert — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:48:46 +0000

I’m a Yankee fan and I realize we are America’s most loved and hated team.

But I dislike the Cards because they treat the regular season like it’s the NBA or NHL – -
do the minimum to make the Playoffs and then try to get hot in the playoffs.
They had the least wins the last two years of any Playoff team with 88 and 90
wins. They play in the weakest division in baseball and still only get in as a
wild-card or 2nd wild card team this year. I hate to see them get hot for a week
and take the World Series title. It’s like Giants going 9-7 and winning the Super Bowl.
I can’t respect them as any kind of real “championship” caliber team.

By: txstlfan

txstlfan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:57:56 +0000

Agree with forsch31. As a Cardinals fan, I don’t mind hearing someone comment on the great baseball fans that are in St. Louis – especially players and managers from opposing teams, visiting fans of other teams, or even sports broadcasters – but can’t stand to hear it as some kind of marketing tagline like Detroit’s “Hockeytown USA”.
I understand that sports is a business, and something like that sells. But Cardinals fans definitely did not self-annoint. And there’s always that minority of fans, even in StL, that are just outright stupid and classless.
I’m not one to contribute to chat rooms with any regularity, just created my login today for this site. But felt compelled to get on and comment. I have read some of the most ignorant, hateful, ridiculous things posted in comment sections on news sites and sports sites – enough to make you give up on the human race. But if you follow sites like VivaElBirdos and other Cardinals fan sites, you’ll find that the majority of them are intelligent, witty, and fair. Ditto to fans of the Nationals and (SF) Giants, also plenty of good San Jose Sharks fans, while we’re at it. I won’t list the teams who have fans that I don’t appreciate, but chances are they know who they are anyway.

By: txstlfan

txstlfan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:42:41 +0000

Always surprises me to hear goofy arguments like the Cardinals “stole (the World Series) from the worthier Rangers”. In pro sports, you have to WIN the championship in order to claim it, correct? Chipmaker, would you prefer the way college footbally does it? I’m sure the Rangers would have earned a nice bowl game and might have even been ranked #1 by a bunch of baseball writers – that’s better than playing the games to decide who wins?
I’m gonna assume you agree that real playoff games are better than the BCS. So maybe you just think the Cardinals get more than their fair share of luck, and they are always the wild card but are never good enough to win a division. Actually the Cards have been on the other end of a “lesser” team beating a “worthier” team series plenty of times. How bout 100 wins in 2005 with an NLCS exit courtesy of the 89-win Astros? Or the Cardinals 105-win season in 2004, only to be destroyed by Boston of all teams? Don’t even get me started on the 1987 and 1985 World Series losses, each in 7 games – with a severely blown call, a man-eating tarp, and a terrible/stupid (was then, and still is now) rule for deciding home-field advantage in the World Series.
Anyway, the breaks don’t always go the Cardinals way. They’ve paid their dues, been on the wrong end of somebody else’s “magical” season. But they play the game the right way, and somehow eventually come back to try again. I love rooting for this team, and don’t feel guilty about their recent success – will just enjoy it while I can. GO CARDS!

By: bmh9500

bmh9500 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:50:08 +0000

That’s a funny way of spelling “Winners”.

By: stumblebum76

stumblebum76 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:31:47 +0000

I’d rather see the Yankees win than the St. Louis Whiners.

By: cardsfanandi

cardsfanandi — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:09:23 +0000

For whatever it’s worth, I really enjoyed watching the Cardinals play the Nats in the LDS. They’re an exciting team to watch, and I got a lot of crazy stares when I sat and cheered as Bryce Harper came up to bat that Sunday (my friend eventually told me I needed to cheer for him on the inside, haha). Can’t wait to see what they do with Strasburg healthy all year. It’s nice to see some competition from some new faces and from a team that’s given fans no reason to be hateful to each other

By: rbickel6

rbickel6 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:31:38 +0000

I don’t hate the Cardinals, but I am SICK TO DEATH of them. I hate the Yankees, but at least it’s fun to hate them. Cards just make me yawn.

I am a die hard Tigers fan. It will be fun if we beat the Skanks and fun to get to the Series. But I swear I will enjoy it even more if the GIants finally shut that team down.

By: cardsrepeat2012

cardsrepeat2012 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:34:40 +0000

You’re embarrassing yourself.

By: cardsrepeat2012

cardsrepeat2012 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:24:02 +0000

I attended one Cards/Cubs game at Wrigley. Upon leaving the game, some Cubs fans, spying my Cardinals hat tried to pour beer on me from a higher deck. Of course, like their pitchers they failed to hit their location and missed badly. Nevertheless, I think they proved that Cards fans don’t have a monopoly on “rude” and “self righteous”. Anyway, I hope you have fun during the postseason or, as it’s known in Chicago, charity-golf-tournament season.

By: alannakdybus

alannakdybus — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:20:42 +0000

clearly, the education system failed ez0682 … had this person ever been to St Louis, he or she would realize that it isn’t all farms… and if he traveled 45 min – 1 hour away from DC, he/she would realize that there is farmland there too! what a concept.. but i guess you aren’t concerned about farms when you’re shoving your face with cheetos & kraft cheese “product”

By: ez0682

ez0682 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:57:08 +0000

Good actually 5 great univ. An lots of people working for great companys. We r d.c. We run shh go back to ur farms lol sad but true

By: rcali

rcali — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:25:20 +0000

I think it’s awesome that they told Pujols to take a walk and they’re back in the post season.

By: kicksave1980

kicksave1980 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:24:23 +0000

Glad you don’t care about the “state” of St. Louis. How are the schools in the “state” of D.C.?

By: ez0682

ez0682 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:16:50 +0000

Haha who would care about stl just a state that dont mean shhh useless state to us now d.c. Diffrent topic cus its actually means or is an important place of the worl gs…sorry but is true go back to ur farms in stl lol

By: schmedley69

schmedley69 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:04:19 +0000

Everyone thinks that Joe Buck is biased against their team, and he denies it, but if you compare the passion in his call when the Cardinals won it last year to the some of his monotone calls of the past world series winners (the 2008 Phillies for example), you can see why people think he’s biased.

By: stlsteelerfan

stlsteelerfan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:04:16 +0000

Sounds like sour grapes. BTW: Congrats to the Cubs on having over 100 losses! I can see why you’re bitter.

By: gwest40

gwest40 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:14:09 +0000

I don’t hate the Cardinals, I hate the Cardinal fans! Cardinal fans are just a bunch of rednecks!

By: deadrabbit79

deadrabbit79 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:08:39 +0000

As a Yankee fan i love the Cards…they remind me of the Yankees of the late 90′s early 2000′s. they have no high priced over paid “superstars”, they play the game right with pitching and defense and situational hitting. Nothing wrong with that. Oh and Motte was my college teammate, that helps a little bit.

By: ms72lbc

ms72lbc — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:51:25 +0000

I’ve been following the Cardinals since the 50′s, and tickets at Sportsman’s Park, Busch Memorial, and the new Busch Stadium have never been easy to get. The fans did not “self-anoint” themselves as the “Best Fans in Baseball”, they simply are. Ask any player that came to St. Louis from another organization.

By: tweiser23

tweiser23 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:47:56 +0000

This article is very ignorant and ill-conceived. Any true fan of the game of baseball realizes the cardinals are the one of the greatest franchises in the history of sports by winning and doing it the right way. Cardinal fans are some of the most knowledgeable, like-able, and not too mention respectable and appreciative in mannerism to every team they face. Also- the cardinals win without having to pay yankee money.

Consider this, subtract 11 of the yankees 27 championships during the george steinbrener era when almost all of the championships were contributed to paying the games best players year in and year out with all of the money in the world and you have a team with 16 championships) Now compare that to the small market St. Louis Cardinals who have 11 championships (would have been 12 had the 85 series not been tampered by poor officiating) who are yet to pay for a championship and still compete almost every year by developing great players, work hard, and good fundamental baseball. In the past 12 years alone the small market cardinals have appeared in the NLCS in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, and 2012. 7 TIMES AS A SMALL MARKET TEAM. Not too mention 3 NLCS titles and and 2 Series titles. It’s one thing to hate a team that pays for titles, but definitely unfair to hate a team that wins as a result of genuine hard work.

Time and Time again over each generation and era it doesn’t matter what the adversity or situation has been, the St. Louis Cardinals have always found a way to win by playing the game the right way and not have to pay for titles. The Cardinals can let the greatest player of our time in Pujols walk and STILL MAKE IT TO THE PENANT. The cardinals can win on the last strike after last strike and come back from 6-0 deficits because the cardinals are built to play the game well and play with anybody anytime any day. If you can’t respect how genuinely great of the team the cardinals are, then you should honestly take a good look at yourself in the mirror.

By: flavas

flavas — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:31:42 +0000

As a Cub fan who suffered 8 long years in the Gateway city, I have an extreme dislike for Cardinal fans–not the team, the fans. They can be rude, self-righteous, ignorant, and to tell you the truth, they all tell the same 3 Cubs jokes over and over again.
They get my vote for ‘least creative fans in baseball.’

By: ihcone

ihcone — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:16:46 +0000

NY Mets fan here, rooting for the Cards.

By: daveloewe

daveloewe — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:54:06 +0000

Carpenter had “season-ending surgery” earlier this year. Grit? I haven’t this much grit since Gibby was slinging the ball when I was a lad.

By: daveloewe

daveloewe — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:48:50 +0000

I know the fans here in St. Louis were rooting for Tony Gwynn to get his 300th hit in St. Louis when he was one hit away. Instead, the poor guy got it in the empty cavern that is Olympic Stadium.

By: cardsrepeat2012

cardsrepeat2012 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:30:27 +0000

Pretty much everyone hates Craig Calcaterra, right?

By: biasedhomer

biasedhomer — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:28:44 +0000

They lost Pujols and Jackson last year, and they make the playoffs once again. They are like the NY Giants, winning it all, but never getting the respect. For expample, Craig here thought the Cards stood no chance against his vastly superior Braves. Look which team has ended up with an early exit once again and which one looks to be making the WS once again.

By: natslady

natslady — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:53:57 +0000

I know this isn’t about Nats fans, but most Nats fans don’t hate the Cardinals. We hate that we lost to them, a punch in the gut. But they didn’t do anything wrong or obnoxious, they played to the last man, the last strike, the last out. They didn’t invade our stadium with drunken hooligans as fans, or kick us when we were down, like the Fillies. I can’t watch the NLCS because it’s too painful. I want to give the Cards a good whallop when we see them in April, but that’s not hate, that’s revenge. I think the Nats could have beaten the Giants, but I’m not at all sure they could have beaten the Tigers. At any rate, I’ll take 100 wins and losing in the last inning of the NLDS to 100 losses and being irrelevant by June.

By: perryt200

perryt200 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:43:08 +0000

Is the Cardinal hate gonna be worse next year? Cards probably won’t have Lohse, Berkman is retiring, Furcal might not be back. There will be a host of no-name people that come and go, who the fans won’t even remember.

And most likely they will still be competitive come October.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:42:16 +0000

The first time I tried to post it, WordPress claimed that I was not logged in even though I was. I then tried again and surprisingly, I somehow managed to double post.