Thursday, May 09, 2013
Former Cardinals OF Fernando Tatís Is Good at MS Paint… No, Really
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Former Cardinals outfielder Fernando Tatís once famously hit 2 Grand Slams in one inning and set a Major Leage record with 8 RBI in one frame but that may not be his biggest feat. Lately it seems that Fernando has been lighting up the world of graphic design and his all original creations are truly a sight to behold and the world needs to stand up and take notice.
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1 2 >Oakland must be high for the bacon day alone.
Yep, on my facebook page I had about 20 people all post positive comments about the loss, I think that is more indicative of the fan base than these #### faces.
This is what I find funny. It's like rednecks who like wrestling calling people fags. I would assume if men are actually in power, and they are given a choice, all things being equal, a hetero man would hire the female before a male, while the "gay" guy would hire the male.
I'm afraid I don't see the appeal of Twitter. Don't you have to spend a lot of time skipping over or filtering out crap like that referenced in the article?
You get to choose who to follow, so if you get to choose which idiots you want to follow.
Yankees/Mets fans are the woist fans in baseball.
Eh, Nationals fans are Werth.
I've found it fairly useful but I follow a relatively small group of people. I don't get the regular individuals just posting their random thoughts on the day (sort of a streamlined Facebook) and even some of the media types do that too. The folks I like generally post quick bits of info or links to articles they've written.
Yeah, I use it to follow some comedians and a few sportswriter types, maybe 75 people total. I hardly ever actually "tweet" anything. If you keep the number of people you follow low (and generally keep it away from any "regular" people, so to speak), the signal to noise ratio is actually pretty good.
On the flip side, the A's fans were booing the Tigers when they were celebrating their ALCS victory. Whatever happened to politely applauding the victor in a close series?
Yup.
I have a few normal people that I follow that I find entertaining as well... or - at least, used to. I had two twitter accounts - one for work (we actually use it quite a bit internally for conferences and such; it has its merits as a mobile IM) and another personal and I made an error and merged the accounts... Fortunately, I always operate under the assumption that anything I say digitally will inevitably come back to bite me, so nothing I tweeted was egregious, but untangling my mess has been a real pain.
We Cubs fans call those "weekends".
I follow a friend of mine who's constantly hilarious and also a series of local food trucks and restaurants. I get five or six good one-liners a day, plus up-to-the-minute information about good chow. Twitter is really useful so long as you don't follow idiots.
I remember hearing that you're also ############# and ########### who oughta go out and get a ######' job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a ######' living.
They booed when the A's left the field.
Then started chanting "Let's go Oakland!" until the A's players relented and came back out of the dugout.
Then stayed and cheered for another 20-30 minutes while the A's players took bows, hugged each other, and went around the whole ballpark high-fiving fans.
The Tigers were kind of irrelevant to the whole thing. It was awesome.
We are the 15%, ############!
Cards fans have endured more lost 3-games-to-1 leads than anyone else (four). Theory: until your team coughs up enough such leads to be entered into elementary school, the fans will behave like babies whenever it happens.
Royals fans, who've been stranded in the wilderness for lo these many years, still have one feat that belongs to their team and their team alone: two comebacks from a 3-games-to-1 deficit in the same postseason.
Yankees/Mets fans are the woist fans in baseball.
Mariners fans are the 6th best in baseball.
[Ducks for cover]
I like all of these.
I didn't remember it either, but, OK, some people booed for like 10-15 seconds. And THEN the place went right back to A's-mania.
Video.
The Red Sox fans errr ahhh the waurst fans in baseball.
Red Sox fans are the best in baseball until the All-Star game, then they totally collapse down the stretch and turn into sniveling little pants-pissers. Wait, that's not really funny because its the truth!
Are people prepared to argue that the Cardinals are chokers? That David Freese is? Freese hit .192 in the NLCS this year.
sorry
What's the difference between a 3-to-1 lead in a 7-game series and a 2-0 lead in a 5-game series?
Nothing if your opponent is the 2012 SF Giants!
"I'm from St. Louis and this whole "best fans in baseball" started in the 80's. The Cardinals had absolutely no power hitters in the 80's (exception being Jack Clark for a couple of years) So fans would go ape #### for any offense stolen bases, advancing the runner, etc.. So sports writers from other cities would witness this fan behavior and say wow these fans really understand the nuisances of the game. When in reality people were just applauding the only offense the Cardinals had."
heh
Not really accurate, yes the description of the team is accurate, but not the origin or genesis of the best fans in baseball 'meme'. Nationally you have about half a dozen teams that consistently got good attendance year in year out in the 80's and 90's, and there were some already established stereotypes on some of those fans. The Dodgers fans arrived late and left early, the Cubs were a drunken lot, the New York fans were New Yorkers, Philly, Boston etc... In comparison, St Louis fans were plentiful, but 'somber', not really as rowdy as the other fans. They would cheer small things, including the opposition on good plays or performance. It wasn't the entire stadium going up in a standing ovation for the small things, but due to the relatively quieter crowd noise in comparison to other filled stadiums, a few hundred people applauding a good performance/small thing got noticed by the press. After getting noticed,(and before McGwire ruined the quality of the crowds) it became a self renewing cycle. The press would say good things about the fans, the fans in time continued to improve on the things that the press was complimenting them on..... New acquisition gets a base hit- standing Ovation became the norm, Clutch homerun--standing ovation, great game--standing ovation, hit into a double play to score a run--standing ovation(to the point it became a joke) eventually to the point that a new acquisition was worshipped for the first week or so on the team. Etc...Other teams would also compliment the stadium/fans and the press would pick it up. It's like when something bad happens in another stadium, it gets a one paragraph article and never mentioned again, if it happens in Philly, it gets repeated over and over. St Louis is the opposite way.
The best fans in baseball moniker is there because Sporting News declared it, based upon the perception of the fans. They are plentiful(as far as I know of, the Cardinals have the second most seasons with over 3 mil attendance and it used to be commented 3 mil attendance with a 2.5mil fanbase) They are nice(less booing than other big attended teams, more cheering of the small stuff and usually less grief given to the opposition, on average) they are "knowledgeable" which to the big media means they have a large percentage keeping score, their ratings are consistently the top 5 etc..
Some of the cheering the fundamentals is something that used to be norm at most stadiums in the past, it didn't happen because the Cardinals could only generate offense with small ball, it happened because it didn't go out of style in St Louis when there became an influx of new fans. (well for the most part,again the McGwire crowd hurt a lot of that)
Angels/Padres fans are the blest fans in baseball.
Gnats fans are the pest fans in baseball.
ARod led Jeter to a World Series and it didn't give him any lifetime cred.
When it comes to fans of particular players, Nick Johnson's are the wrist.
Cardinal fans' jumping on David Freese after last year's world series takes some....I dunno, "balls" doesn't seem like the right word.
Chutzpah.
Sorry, could someone explain this one to me? Maybe I'm just dense. It seems like one of those jokes that would be really funny if I got it.
So there is someone who actually gets value out of Twitter!
Sorry, that's too damn hard.
100, 100, 95, 99, 90, 100, 76, 89, 85, 93, 87
Over that period, they finished 1st in the NL in runs scored per game twice, and second in the NL, twice.
Also, fifth, twice, 7th, 11th twice, and 12th once.
Anyway, are any cards fans really freaking out? I'm isolated, living in SF, and I haven't been on the web, but I'm sure it's no worse than what went on in any of the other sbnation sites for teams like the Yankees, Nats, etc. Aside from being a little cranky at the locals who shouted rude things out their windows at me while jogging in my ankiel shersey, this is the least upset I've ever been after a playoff loss. We were playing with house money for the second year in a row, fer chrissake ;)
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