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well we dropped from #1 to #3 party school, so we're slipping a bit, but still not bad

thanks for asking
 
you realize that would involve a large number of chicagoans all at once. wouldn't your head implode or something?
 
ha.

i just read my original post in this thread. despite how annoying i find you, i realize i over-psychobitched. i apologize. i have had a very long day. i still think you suck though.
 
hey its ok, i still love you, im sure i have been very annoying, ill probably stay away from cubs threads from now on, since i have said my piece

shouldnt ya be watching the game, its about to start
 
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i still love you too chizip. let's be friends and lovers.

i gotta go and watch the **** play.

bye. :kiss:



:hug: chizip :hug:
 
:angry:

I think the Cards won when I saw them this summer. I had a hot date and too many budweisers, so it's slipped my mind. Go cubbies.
 
zoney! said:
Maybe if some of you lived in more than one place your whole life, you would understand your loyalties to the different cities. :D
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jeff you and your charming team, charming stadium, and charming bullshit can go fuck yourself.

and didn't you move to Illi earlier this year? this automatically makes you a native? :rolleyes:
 
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MissVelvetDress_75 said:

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jeff you and your charming team, charming stadium, and charming bullshit can go fuck yourself.

and didn't you move to Illi earlier this year? this automatically makes you a native? :rolleyes:
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you have no logic...and you are becoming as annoying as Chizip here. Before going and posting "go fuck yourself" after your team losses ONE GAME (one game does not make a series), why don't you sleep on it. No one came in here and shoved your face in the fact that the Cubs beat the Braves..and I know I have no intentions on doing it, and I doubt Screaming Flower will.

Yeah, I moved to Illinois THIS YEAR. No, it does not make me a native. I have never said that. I am a native of California. I moved when I was 2 1/2. I never knew you had to be a "Native" to cheer for a team. I don't understand these petty little rules you guys make in your mind.

I will cheer for the team I feel a connection with. I feel a connection with the Cubs in the National League. Have felt that connection a lot longer than my drivers Lic. read "Illinois." Therefore, I will cheer for the Cubs.

Again...thank you for telling me to "go Fuck myself." There is nothing better than a classy response than that in a petty argument. You sound like a Yankee fan.
 
Here ya go Zoney, you should take a look at this

a couple excerpts from

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/020227.html

Rules for being a true fan
By Bill Simmons
Page 2 columnist


This column has been brewing for about six weeks, ever since a startling phone conversation with one of my Page 2 bosses (KJ, a Seattle native and die-hard Seahawks fan). We were chatting about the Patriots and Steelers potentially colliding in the playoffs, when KJ suddenly said, "At least if my Steelers lose, I'll be happy for you, because the Pats made it."

Huh? My Steelers??? And this was how I found out that KJ -- my esteemed editor and friend, a good man, a father and a husband, the man who makes Page 2 run so smoothly -- was a Sports Bigamist. As it turns out, the Steelers are KJ's Second-Favorite Team, whatever that means. Apparently, as long as Pittsburgh isn't playing Seattle, he roots for the Steelers, but he doesn't root for the Steelers quite as hard as he roots for the Seahawks, and if both teams are doing well, he chooses the Seahawks, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about the Steelers, and I think I just lost control of my bowels.

Honestly, I just can't understand it. You cannot root for two teams at the same time. You cannot hedge your bets. You cannot unconditionally love two teams at the same time, when there's a remote chance that they might go head-to-head some day.

(I can't believe it -- KJ, of all people. We need to go undergo Friend Therapy just so I can come to grips with this.)

Did the entire turn of events warrant a column? Probably not. But I couldn't resist slapping together a list of 20 set-in-stone rules that every professional sports fan should abide. Maybe you have your own rules; these are mine. And just so you know, I concentrated this column on the dynamic involving fans and their favorite team, so there are none of those "No talking on your cell phone and waving to the center-field camera if you're sitting behind home plate"-type rules in here.

Without further ado ...


blah blah blah...


And the biggies ...

Loyalties

18. If you live in a city that has fielded a professional team since your formative years, you have to root for that team. None of this, "The Bengals weren't very good when I was growing up in Cincy, so I became a Cowboys fan" crap.

Also, you can't start rooting for a team, back off when they're in a down cycle, then renew the relationship once the team starts winning again. All those Cowboys fans who jumped off the bandwagon in the late-'80s, jumped back on during the Emmitt/Aikman Era, then jumped back off in the late-'90s ... you know who you are. You shouldn't even be allowed out in public.

(There's nothing worse than a Bandwagon Jumper. If sports were a prison and sports fans made up all the prisoners, the Bandwagon Jumpers would be like the child molesters -- everyone else would pick on them, take turns beating them up and force them to toss more salads than Emeril Lagasse.)

19. Once you choose a team, you're stuck with that team for the rest of your life ... unless one of the following conditions applies:

Your team moves to another city. All bets are off when that happens. In fact, if you decided to turn off that sport entirely, nobody would blame you.

You grew up in a city that didn't field a team for a specific sport -- so you picked a random team -- and then either a.) your city landed a team, or b.) you moved to a city that fielded a team for that specific sport. For instance, one of my Connecticut buddies rooted for the Sixers during the Doctor J Era, then happened to be living in Orlando when the Magic came to town. Now he's a Magic fan. That's acceptable.

One of your immediate family members either plays professionally or takes a relevant management/coaching/front office position with a pro team.

You follow your favorite college star (and this has to be a once-in-a-generation favorite college star) to the pros and root for his team du jour ... like if you were a UNC fan for the past 20 years, and you rooted for the Bulls (because of MJ) and then the Raptors (because of Vince). Only works if there isn't a pro team in your area.

The owner of your favorite team treated his fans so egregiously over the years that you couldn't take it anymore -- you would rather not follow them at all then support a franchise with this owner in charge. Just for the record, I reached this point with the Boston Bruins about six years ago. When it happens, you have two options: You can either renounce that team and pick someone else, or you can pretend they're dead, like you're a grieving widow. That's what I do. I'm an NHL widow. I don't even want to date another team.

If you're between the ages of 20-40, you're a fan of the Yankees, Cowboys, Braves, Raiders, Steelers, Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Canadiens and/or Oilers, and you're not actually from those one of those cities ... well, you better have a reason that goes beyond "When I was picking a favorite team as a kid, they were the best team, so I picked them."

At least give me a reason like "Reggie Jackson was my favorite player growing up," or "I always liked the red Bulls uniforms," or even "Everyone in my gang wore Raiders colors." Do you really want to be known as a bona fide Bandwagon Jumper?

20. If you hail from New York, you can't root for the Yankees and the Mets. You have to choose between them. Repeat: You have to choose between them. Don't give me this "As long as one of them is doing well, at least New York is winning" spiels. What is this, the sports fan's version of bisexuality? How about making a choice? Any New Yorker who said the words "It's the Yankees versus the Mets ... I can't lose!" during the 2000 World Series deserves to be tortured with a cattle prod.

Besides, as we mentioned in the beginning of this column, you shouldn't practice "Sports Bigamy" in general. Sports teams are just like wives ... you can only have one wife, you can only have one sports team, and for the love of God, I will not argue about this.
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:yawn:

It is nice that you feel the need to conform to these "imaginary" rules. You make for a good sheep.

baaah! Sheer stupidity, now!

Again, I cheer with my heart. End of story.



I think Cujo would like that "sheep" bit.
 
bogus

I can root for who I want, when I want.

If my team is eliminated, I will pick someone else to root for.

I have picked the cubs and twins.

Suck it Trebeck
 
I showed this thread to my friend, and she was logged onto her computer as Zonelistener..wonder who used interference last at her place and forgot to log out? :der:

zonelistener's U2 friend in Chicago :ohmy: said:
I agree with Zoney. You can cheer for more than one team. I was born and raised a Cubs fan and a native of Chicago. However, I know quite a few New Yorkers and East Coasters that are die hard Cubs fans thanks to Cable Television and WGN having been a Cable station for many years. So, sorry Atlanta fans whereever you are. Cubs fans have always outnumbered Braves fans and will continue to multiply I am sure.
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yes..WGN and TBS has spread the love for both teams. As for "America's Team," it is a marketing slogan.

More good sheep.
 
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