A post in which Padres Fan is forced to eat crow
by Dex on Oct 5, 2010 4:45 PM PDT
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PrintAfter the heartbreaking Game 162 loss, it was only a very slight afterthought that we really should have locked up the season a couple of days sooner, by taking 3 of 4 against the Cubs or even splitting the series. We, as Padres Fans, take pride in a few things. On the short list:
- There are very few of us.
- 1998
- 1984
One Cubs Fan in particular thoroughly enjoyed the final Padres games this season and wrote to tell me about it:
Subject: Revenge is Mine!
I wrote a harmless little letter to a Chicago Cubs writer talking about how I wished the Cubs could have shut up the Padres celebrating their 25th Anniversary of 1984 and you and your readers decided to take my letter and the response and have a field day ridiculing me. (http://www.gaslampball.com/
2009/5/28/891729/was-the-1984- celebration-too-mean) Fair enough. Honestly, I am glad you guys had some fun with it, even though I was target of your derision.
Then, in 2010, to prove how obsessed you guys are with 1984, when my cubbies visited this year, you wore your 1984 throwback jerseys. However, this year, we came, we saw, and we kicked your butts 3 out of 4 games! You would have made the playoffs, maybe even won your division if you could have managed a split against us but our pitching staff turned your "hitters" into little girls.
I loved watching the agony of your fans at the way your team choked this year. Maybe instead of planning how you are going to commemorate 1984, you should focus on the game at hand? Maybe you might still be playing baseball now instead of sitting at home watching the Giants and the Braves in the playoffs.
I’ve never enjoyed watching another team lose more. Heh heh heh . . .
Marty
I looked back at what he was talking about and, true, I made fun of his two weeks of deep depression, but I wasn't nearly as bad as I probably could have been.
After reading Marty's email, I tried to get the juices flowing for some really witty, but probably vulgar comeback, but I didn't have it in me. MARTY'S RIGHT! We should all eat crow. Or at least I was up for eating crow. I love to ridicule Cubs Fan plenty, but now I am continuing to pay penance.
With his permission I have reposted this email as another lesson learned from 2010: Cubs Fan is used to waiting long periods of time and is not beyond waiting YEARS to pounce and force you to eat crow.
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A cubs fan would enjoy watching another team lose
Considering the Cubs can’t even manage a winning season, let alone make the playoffs.
Fire Bud Black
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 5, 2010 5:17 PM PDT reply actions
I'll eat crow
if he eats sh!t.
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThinGwynn on Oct 5, 2010 5:26 PM PDT reply actions 13 recs
When was the last time the Cubs won the NL?
Oh right, it was when all the good baseballs players were fighting in WWII
Fire Bud Black
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 5, 2010 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
For Cubs fans, the term "scapegoat" has a very literal meaning...
Ehhhh, I don't deserve a signature...
So very rec'd
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
No Crow eating when the other team cannot compel a winning season.
I believe we were still 5-3 against them this year.
I BELIEVE.
by LetBurroughsPitch on Oct 5, 2010 6:53 PM PDT reply actions
someday you might be able to BUY yourself a World Series, Cubs fan
keep on trying, and when it happens, I’m sure it will give you lots of “genuine” elation. You should just move to San Diego, just like all the other fuckin Cubs fans.
My compliment to you- you can be funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RzmDD2MGU
Freely admit this game hurt
But I doubt it hurt as much as watching a series slip away through Leon Durham’s legs.
"Way to be all matchy, f________." - TTG's Awesome Friend
by Winfield's Ghost on Oct 5, 2010 7:07 PM PDT reply actions
I thought so too.
Definitely made me chuckle out loud.
"i kinda feel like nevin and klesko were some fling we (the padres) had in the past and now realize were a bad idea and are embarrassed about."
I would like to think we could possibly have a mini rivalry with the Cubs
but that would take them being decent and in contention.
Maybe next year…
Mat Latos is the real deal...Go Lakers, Pads, and Bolts
Any team we lost to can say this
See you at the 1984 celebration next year, where we’ll wear the same jerseys and shout it like it’s f*cking OrwellCon
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
by Axion on Oct 5, 2010 7:52 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
didnt we wear throwbacks like ten times this year?
We should wear the 90s throwbacks when we play the braves next year. That would be sweet
by SD Jake on Oct 5, 2010 7:58 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Thank you but....
90-72 vs 75-87? No, this won’t be the year I eat crow.
Thanks for playing though.
Rod, tell them what they won.
Dex and I were talking
that the thing we admired about Marty is that he let this post fester and waited over a year to serve us a cold dish of revenge.
I was kind of thinking the same thing.
When I first read the post, I laughed and thought that it must feel good for Cubs Fan to get that off his chest.
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Oct 6, 2010 7:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Seriously been butt hurt about this since May? Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Cubs fan.
This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman
by Padres_Hobo on Oct 5, 2010 10:02 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Hey, let's be realistic.
If he’s a Cubs fan, he’s been butthurt his entire life.
by Darklighter on Oct 5, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have no sympathy for smelly cubs fan.
Smelly cubs fan sat behind me during The Miracle in Mission Valley.
Smelly cubs fan was an arrogant ass on Friday
Smelly cubs fan was an arrogant ass on Saturday
Smelly cubs fan was an arrogant ass on Sunday
Smelly cubs fan vanished instantly, when things went south on Sunday.
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Don't hate the game, hate the nerds!
by thenerdhater on Oct 6, 2010 9:47 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Hey Marty,
This is why we will forever rub 1984 in Cubs Fan’s smug face:
“The fact is, in San Diego they’re not obsessed. They aren’t delirious with the drama and historical significance of the playoffs. It’s just another pleasant, recreational diversion.
"They have no sense of tradition because they have no tradition. Even their ballpark is disgusting…And the fans wouldn’t even think of getting in brawls or cursing an opponent or tossing beer on an outfielder. Instead, they come to the park in the skimpiest of clothing and admire one another’s nautilus-tuned bods. And anybody with a manly, bleacher-bum belly is viewed as an affront to the environment.
"But I’m not worried about San Diego winning. That’s because I truly believe that there is fairness and equity in life. And in truth, justice and the American way. And because we have fairness, equity, truth, justice, and the American way on our side, we are going to slaughter those lousy wimps." -Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune
Let’s say God Himself came down and gave me these two choices: A: for the Pads to win the World Series in 2011, or B: for the Cubs to never ever win the WS for all of eternity. I’d choose B. I’d derive more pleasure from watching Cubs Fan suffer for my remaining days.
May the Cubs forever suck!!!!
Fy fan! (That means damn in Swedish).
by Pad Fan in Sweden on Oct 6, 2010 4:25 PM PDT reply actions
You would choose another team's demise, a team not in our division, over our own success?
No thanks, I’ll take the ring.
I BELIEVE.
by LetBurroughsPitch on Oct 6, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I like it.
I don’t get sick of people thinking we’re all a bunch of sushi eating fairies and using it as their way to justify following such a crappy team.
Enjoy your deep dish pizza, high cholesterol, and short life expectancies while I go surf, eat veggie burritos, and go shopping for new flip flops for the winter. Hang loose, bra.
Oh internet, what a wicked web you weave.
by Mad_Villain on Oct 7, 2010 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
the funny thing is
Wrigleyville is just as yuppie as the Gaslamp Quarter. Both neighborhoods, without the baseball factor of course, could use a little dignity. In both hoods, you gotta walk 10 blocks to find a legit bar that ain’t meant to be Broed & Hoed.
by recorddigger on Oct 7, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow
Those lovable losers are seriously pissed at us.
Well, at least Marty is making some friends. That should be good for him.
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Oct 7, 2010 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahaha,
“2010: Cubs Fan is used to waiting long periods of time and is not beyond waiting YEARS to pounce and force you to eat crow.”
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