Harry Chappas Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/1...03/03torpy.html I am not savy enough to link this up and maybe an old topic but try this out. The site is www.ajc.com and type in Keyowrd TORPY. This story is so on the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 That is such a true article. I LMAO through the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Great article. I just wish someone from another City/State would write an article like this with no strings to either Chicago or the White Sox. Then you'd know the word is getting around about CubDumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Lopez Ghost (old) Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Great find! thanks for letting everyone know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnB Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 I emailed that to every cub fan I know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kramer99 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 for some reason link doesnt open on my computer...can someone copy and paste it so i can read it. :fthecubs :fthecubs :fthecubs :fthecubs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 GREAT Article!!!! The terms "Lovable Losers" and "Chicago Cubs" show up 3,600 times in a Google search on the Internet. But, you saw the Cub fans at Turner Field for Games 1 and 2. Do you find them lovable? I thought not -- although "losers" sure seems to fit. They're loud and shrill and full of themselves and in your face with their Sammy Sosa and Ernie Banks jerseys and their chants. "Cubbies! Cubbies! Cubbies!" It's still ringing in my ears from Wednesday night's game. Mostly, I hate how Cub fans wield their faux passion for their inept team as a badge of moral superiority. It's kind of a: "Hey, we love a team that usually stinks but we keep coming back. We must really be True Fans." But think of it this way: If a restaurant opened in your neighborhood and served subpar, inedible food -- I mean garbage -- would you keep going back? For 95 years? Right. So what we have here is a character defect, a psychological flaw or maybe just mass civic hysteria. Actually, I don't want to tar Chicago. I'm from Chicago, fifth generation Chicago. Wrigley Field is a nice place, a cozy postcard of a ballpark that is wasted on the miserable flotsam known as Cub fans. It's here I must put my cards on the table. I grew up on the South Side in Chicago, which means I'm a White Sox fan. Sure, Sox fans have our own flaws. We have knuckleheads who charge the field and attack umpires and coaches. But the attacks aren't personal. Sox fans are anti-social by nature; we don't even like each other. I've been beaten up at Comiskey Park. I figure the guy who hit me was a Sox fan, because he knew how to punch. A Cub fan would have stood back and taunted me with snappy one-liners and then run away. Our team hasn't won a World Series since 1917. But we don't walk around jibbering about it. At one time, the Cubs had real fans who worked hard jobs. Then they went on cable and the neighborhoods around Wrigley Field became gentrified and the Cubs became a fad -- like disco with ivy. If someone hears I'm from Chicago, they usually interject, "You must be a Cub fan." I'm usually offended. They might as well be saying: "You must be a Corona-sipping, brie-eating, self-absorbed meathead." True baseball people know in their hearts who Cub fans really are. Former Cubs manager Lee Elia summed up the team's fans -- the Cubs played only day games then -- in a 1983 press conference tirade: "The (blanks) don't even work. That's why they're out at the (blanking) game. They oughta go out and get a (blanking) job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a (blanking) living. Eighty-five percent of the (blanking) world's out there working, the other 15 percent come out here... a (blanking) playground for the (blanks)." True, it must be hard keeping up the front of cheering for a pathetic team whose fate is to disappoint. If you think about it, a whole generation has been born since 1908, the last time the Cubs won a postseason series. Let's hope a couple more generations pass on before the Cubs find success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hotsoxchick1 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 GREAT Article!!!! The terms "Lovable Losers" and "Chicago Cubs" show up 3,600 times in a Google search on the Internet. But, you saw the Cub fans at Turner Field for Games 1 and 2. Do you find them lovable? I thought not -- although "losers" sure seems to fit. They're loud and shrill and full of themselves and in your face with their Sammy Sosa and Ernie Banks jerseys and their chants. "Cubbies! Cubbies! Cubbies!" It's still ringing in my ears from Wednesday night's game. Mostly, I hate how Cub fans wield their faux passion for their inept team as a badge of moral superiority. It's kind of a: "Hey, we love a team that usually stinks but we keep coming back. We must really be True Fans." But think of it this way: If a restaurant opened in your neighborhood and served subpar, inedible food -- I mean garbage -- would you keep going back? For 95 years? Right. So what we have here is a character defect, a psychological flaw or maybe just mass civic hysteria. Actually, I don't want to tar Chicago. I'm from Chicago, fifth generation Chicago. Wrigley Field is a nice place, a cozy postcard of a ballpark that is wasted on the miserable flotsam known as Cub fans. It's here I must put my cards on the table. I grew up on the South Side in Chicago, which means I'm a White Sox fan. Sure, Sox fans have our own flaws. We have knuckleheads who charge the field and attack umpires and coaches. But the attacks aren't personal. Sox fans are anti-social by nature; we don't even like each other. I've been beaten up at Comiskey Park. I figure the guy who hit me was a Sox fan, because he knew how to punch. A Cub fan would have stood back and taunted me with snappy one-liners and then run away. Our team hasn't won a World Series since 1917. But we don't walk around jibbering about it. At one time, the Cubs had real fans who worked hard jobs. Then they went on cable and the neighborhoods around Wrigley Field became gentrified and the Cubs became a fad -- like disco with ivy. If someone hears I'm from Chicago, they usually interject, "You must be a Cub fan." I'm usually offended. They might as well be saying: "You must be a Corona-sipping, brie-eating, self-absorbed meathead." True baseball people know in their hearts who Cub fans really are. Former Cubs manager Lee Elia summed up the team's fans -- the Cubs played only day games then -- in a 1983 press conference tirade: "The (blanks) don't even work. That's why they're out at the (blanking) game. They oughta go out and get a (blanking) job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a (blanking) living. Eighty-five percent of the (blanking) world's out there working, the other 15 percent come out here... a (blanking) playground for the (blanks)." True, it must be hard keeping up the front of cheering for a pathetic team whose fate is to disappoint. If you think about it, a whole generation has been born since 1908, the last time the Cubs won a postseason series. Let's hope a couple more generations pass on before the Cubs find success. omfg lmao.. what a great article... wish they would put it in the times up here and let the world know how real people view scrub fans.........i gotta print that off and give it to every scrub fan i know .........wonder how they will react with honesty starin them in the face lol... or will they even notice...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 HSC ... They'll just blink, then give you a dumb blank look. You know the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hotsoxchick1 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 HSC ... They'll just blink, then give you a dumb blank look. You know the one. yeah thats what i kinda figure lol.. but hey its worth a shot.. if nothing else i get entertained for a few minutes lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 I think I'm going to print, frame and display this article on my wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hotsoxchick1 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 I think I'm going to print, frame and display this article on my wall. im printing it off now and im gonna plaster it on everyones office at work........ damn im surrounded by scrub fans there........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 My favorite quotes: A Cub fan would have stood back and taunted me with snappy one-liners and then run away. I'm usually offended. They might as well be saying: "You must be a Corona-sipping, brie-eating, self-absorbed meathead." Let's hope a couple more generations pass on before the Cubs find success. end quote I want this guy as our next manager. Hell the players play and the manager gives interviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 I emailed the guy with the link here. Hope he posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighHeat45 Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 figure the guy who hit me was a Sox fan, because he knew how to punch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeportHeather Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 GREAT Article!!!! The terms "Lovable Losers" and "Chicago Cubs" show up 3,600 times in a Google search on the Internet. But, you saw the Cub fans at Turner Field for Games 1 and 2. Do you find them lovable? I thought not -- although "losers" sure seems to fit. They're loud and shrill and full of themselves and in your face with their Sammy Sosa and Ernie Banks jerseys and their chants. "Cubbies! Cubbies! Cubbies!" It's still ringing in my ears from Wednesday night's game. Mostly, I hate how Cub fans wield their faux passion for their inept team as a badge of moral superiority. It's kind of a: "Hey, we love a team that usually stinks but we keep coming back. We must really be True Fans." But think of it this way: If a restaurant opened in your neighborhood and served subpar, inedible food -- I mean garbage -- would you keep going back? For 95 years? Right. So what we have here is a character defect, a psychological flaw or maybe just mass civic hysteria. Actually, I don't want to tar Chicago. I'm from Chicago, fifth generation Chicago. Wrigley Field is a nice place, a cozy postcard of a ballpark that is wasted on the miserable flotsam known as Cub fans. It's here I must put my cards on the table. I grew up on the South Side in Chicago, which means I'm a White Sox fan. Sure, Sox fans have our own flaws. We have knuckleheads who charge the field and attack umpires and coaches. But the attacks aren't personal. Sox fans are anti-social by nature; we don't even like each other. I've been beaten up at Comiskey Park. I figure the guy who hit me was a Sox fan, because he knew how to punch. A Cub fan would have stood back and taunted me with snappy one-liners and then run away. Our team hasn't won a World Series since 1917. But we don't walk around jibbering about it. At one time, the Cubs had real fans who worked hard jobs. Then they went on cable and the neighborhoods around Wrigley Field became gentrified and the Cubs became a fad -- like disco with ivy. If someone hears I'm from Chicago, they usually interject, "You must be a Cub fan." I'm usually offended. They might as well be saying: "You must be a Corona-sipping, brie-eating, self-absorbed meathead." True baseball people know in their hearts who Cub fans really are. Former Cubs manager Lee Elia summed up the team's fans -- the Cubs played only day games then -- in a 1983 press conference tirade: "The (blanks) don't even work. That's why they're out at the (blanking) game. They oughta go out and get a (blanking) job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a (blanking) living. Eighty-five percent of the (blanking) world's out there working, the other 15 percent come out here... a (blanking) playground for the (blanks)." True, it must be hard keeping up the front of cheering for a pathetic team whose fate is to disappoint. If you think about it, a whole generation has been born since 1908, the last time the Cubs won a postseason series. Let's hope a couple more generations pass on before the Cubs find success. omfg lmao.. what a great article... wish they would put it in the times up here and let the world know how real people view scrub fans.........i gotta print that off and give it to every scrub fan i know .........wonder how they will react with honesty starin them in the face lol... or will they even notice...... Ya think you should put that thing in an envelope and place it in your neighbor's mailbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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