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1 2 3 4 5 6 >Yeah? Well then why don't they do it as much as everyone else?
I've pointed this out a few times: if the Tigers and Cards go to the world series, ten teams with better 2012 records will be home watching on TV. They're records are 11th and 12th. So, in the top half, at least. But barely.
EDIT: So, I don't actually HATE the Cardinals. Had they won their division or won 93 or 94 games or something (the latter being better, IMO), I'd be perfectly fine with them. There is nothing wrong with the Cardinals. There is something wrong with naming as champion someone who was barely better than average most of the year.
Then Friday happened.
Now I want them dead, I want their families dead, I want their houses burned to the ground, Untouchables-style.
That pretty much sums up the whole premise here. A few days ago the rest of the world wasn't "cheering for the young, likable, fiery Washington Nationals". The Nationals were hated because how dare they not give Strasburg the ball for the playoffs.
For me, I can't work up enough hate or love for any of the remaining teams to really care about what's left of the postseason. I'm sure there will still be some good games.
This is a good reason to hate the Cardinals. People who say #### like this about them.
Shitstained self-entitlement. A complete failure to recognize the brute, random ######## that has simply bounced the franchise's way the last few seasons. The becoming-Yankees-fans of the self-righteous "best fans in baseball."
The question isn't "why hate them." It's why would you not?
This is outstanding.
The Cardinals have become a unique blight on American sports, an admixture of head lice, herpes, and leprosy. Their postseason accomplishments are random and silly and Exhibit A against Bud's ridiculous "One Moment in Time" postseason. If baseball was still structured properly, they would have finished 10 games out and be counting down the days until spring training 2013.
Yep. It's like hearing about "True Yankee fans," only the Yankees actually won something, whereas the Cards are just this decade's model of the Marlins.
And if the Cardinals do win it all, then will you guys get over it?
The more comments like this you guys make, the more obvious it becomes to everyone how absurd the Joe Buckian myths about Cardinals fans are.
Kind of disingenuous to call them "barely better than average". They had a 93-69 pythag (second best in league; giants 88-74, ATL 92-70, CIN 91-71, WSN 96-76) and they didn't have Chris Carpenter most of the year, or Miller or Rosenthal in the bullpen. This is a team that lost it's starting SS & starting 1B to injury (and backup 1B, for a month), and still led the NL in runs scored for most of the year, playing in an extreme pitcher's park, and finished second in R/G but with the highest team OBP and OPS+ (and a 104 ERA+).
This is me. Last weekend was tragic. I suppose I can muster up the energy to root against the Yankees in an abstract sort of sense (but not enough to actually watch the games), and a good friend of mine is a Giants fan so I guess I could be happy for him if they win again.
But in two days I went from...."ooooh look at all these interesting teams in the playoffs!" to "perhaps this new computer game will give me something to pass the time".
2006 was the year that they stopped caring what their final season record was going to be with about three weeks left in the season and ended up going from the 2nd best record in the NL to the poor record they ended up with. I'm not sure what "knew how to win" means. Every team that wins in the post season is going to get that label, it's a writers cliche.
You mean in which 1. Yadier Molina was antagonized by Phillips, as it was a violatile situation both teams were on edge, and Phillips (who I happen to like) tapped Molina on the shins with his bat. Or after the Reds hit a homerun fireworks going off, and Carpenter being told by the umps to wait for the smoke to clear before pitching, that somehow the whining announcers/press of cincy(not the players or coaches mind you) interpreted as Carpenter "losing his head".
The current iteration of the team isn't that fundamentally sound.
I imagine a fan base that can sell out a post season game is a reason to not hate them, the hatred for those self entitled Braves fans and "america's team" was legitimately earned.
All the other stuff is a typical byproduct of a baseball season. If you're a good team and a key injury means you don't win your division, tough ####. That's baseball, Suzyn. Or at least it was, until Bud's tournament ruined it.
1) Jose Jimenez
2) Marlon Anderson
3) Mark Mulder
4) Anthony Reyes
Is there anyone else, other than flyers on various veterans who were not expected to do much anyway? (Khalil Greene, Preston Wilson, Kelly Stinnett)
Maybe Eli Marrero, he was supposed to be a star and that never happened. He was pretty good though.
People who hate the cardinals are just a bunch of whiny #######.
Mike Maroth proved that Dave Duncan couldn't fix everyone.
That's the curse of the LDS. By the time the first week in October rolls around, everyone is ready for playoff baseball and the games are pretty compelling -- then you realize that they've made the LCS and the World Series far worse than it should be. The complete apathy in NYC for the LCS is a compelling leading indicator of just how diluted the postseason is and how fans are finally figuring it out. The Yankees are not selling out LCS games, in a stadium that seats less than 50,000 people.
But in two days I went from...."ooooh look at all these interesting teams in the playoffs!" to "perhaps this new computer game will give me something to pass the time".
Me too, but the Tigers are an interesting team, and they haven't won in 30 years. So I'm pulling for them.
In 2006, they won 83 games. They beat a better team in 7 games in the LCS, and in the World Series played a team that had swept them in the regular season (*), and gone 15-3 against the NL Central, the Cardinals' division. The better team had an absurd 9 (or so) days off between their pummeling of the A's in the LCS and Game 1 of the "World Series." The games in St. Louis were played in a cold drizzle/downpour.
It doesn't get any more undeserving than that.
(*) Interleague play has also diluted the postseason and taken away part of its charm.
Did the sand from Yadi's wah wah migrate up yours, now? As New Yankee Stadium can attest to this week, any team that is in the playoffs with regularity will eventually lose fans in the first rounds of the Selig's Neverending Post-Season Tournament.
Granted, with the cows that come out for "Cardinal nation" you do have a better than average chance of filling that stadium, what with the two-to-one ratio of ass to seat you guys provide.
Their whole strategy seems to be, let's have a bunch of guys all get hot in October and we'll win the WS. And it ####### works. That's ########.
Probably my least favorite team in the NL. Especially now that Pujols is gone.
Is this true? Huh. I guess I confused the Tigers and the White Sox.
For what it's worth, there are quite a few Cardinals fans who feel the same way about TLR.
Again, they had the second best record and the division locked up and stopped caring in 2006 with about two weeks to go. Standings as of September 16th From that point on, they were focused on setting up their lineup for the post season, resting players during games, etc. They just did not care, yes they had nearly a Braves level historic collapse because of that lack of caring, but ultimately they squeaked into the post season, as they knew they were going to. Then they faced a New York team that had a couple of key injuries, while the Cardinals team was healthy for the first time since the middle of the season. They weren't the same team in the playoffs as they were in the second half of the regular season.
You should have waited a year for Vern Rapp to come along, bye bye mustaches.
I hold no ill will against them for beating the Nats- their fans were mostly pretty classy about it , and its not like they pulled anything underhanded. They just beat the #### out of the ball when it counted.
Well, technically it has only been 28 years. The Tigers last won the WS in 1984.
I dislike any and all Wild Card champions, and the Cardinals have exemplified that in recent memory. I think winning one's division should be a pre-requisite for winning the league as a whole. I felt the same way about Alabama's BCS title last year. They didn't win the SEC, why should they win the BCS? It's just something that aggravates me in sports.
Man, it must really suck to be you.
This does provide one more reason to hope Jack Morris falls short in this year's HOF vote (not that any more are needed): the perfect super-nova of SBB agony and self-pity that will follow.
EDIT: essentially what [32] said.
i knew this was going to be a fun thread.
While this may be true in a larger cultural sense (I don't know), it's certainly not the sentiment behind my original comment. It just so happened that this year the teams I wanted to win had high win totals (Nats, A's, and to a lesser extent Orioles). My complaint with the Tigers and the Cardinals isn't that they didn't win as many games as the other guys, it's that I don't particularly like the Tigers and Cardinals. OK, well I don't dislike the Cardinals...I just think they've won enough lately so I'd like to see someone else do it.
For me, a flawed team making a run and winning is a good thing in a system rather than a bad thing. My interest in the NHL playoffs or the NCAA basketball tournament usually wanes once all the teams that clearly don't belong there are eliminated. I don't claim that it's a widely held view, or that anyone else should hold it, but for me a playoff system that always puts the best team against the best team in the final is kind of boring. Maybe I'm being selfish but the purpose of a tournament isn't for the teams to settle between themselves who's better...it's to entertain me.
the cards started out with good ideas but then they went to far.
Despite being a "thinking" fan, I don't give a rip about pythag records. Wins are wins, losses are losses.
Again, they had the second best record and the division locked up and stopped caring in 2006 with about two weeks to go.
SOunds like a good reason to hate them. Although I do get it - the early 00s Cards got ripped off several times and they made an adjustment. Perhaps what I hate is that they symbolize the modern idea of championship baseball: do just enough to get into the playoffs and then catch some breaks. It's ugly.
That isn't really on THEM, of course. But if you are going to be a symbol, people are going to shoot at you.
You keep saying this, but I feel it's quite misleading. With exactly 3 weeks left in the 2006 season (Sept 10) the Cardinals actually had the 3rd best NL record, but with six teams within five games of them. That's not a time to say "ok, let's lay off the accelerator". They were also 6th in the NL in run differential at that point for anyone that likes those numbers. I can't find a day after their Aug 1 loss that year where they had a win pct that would put them at even 90 wins.
Their 2006 could just as easily be interpreted as such: They had a hot April (17-8) and benefited from such a crappy division that playing not even .500, but close, the rest of the way would have been more than enough to make the playoffs.
If it happens once in a while, yes. If it happens every ####### year, no.
This is something I like about soccer. The Champion's League is important and great fun and all, but it is distinct from the underlying Championships, which are just based on standings. Best of both world's.
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