A lot has been made over the Adam Dunn homer on Wednesday, where 12-18 (it keeps getting higher the more people talk about it) balls that were thrown back. It gave the Chicago Cubs beat writers for the Sun-Times and the Tribune to call all Cubs fans drunk losers who don't pay attention to the games anyways. It's standard procedure. Paul Sullivan and Gordon Wittenmyer presumably get off on this kind of stuff because it gives then an easy day at the office.
The Chicago beat writers, however, are not the only ones getting into the action now. Decrepid old broadcaster Marty Brennaman saw fit on Wednesday to go off on the air about his feelings on the Cubs, Cubs fans, and how they'll fare this season.
"This is what makes you want to see this Chicago Cubs team lose. Among all baseball fans -- I can't attest to the Yankees and Red Sox because we don't see them with any degree of regularity unless it's interleague play -- but far and away the most obnoxious fans in baseball in this league are those who follow this team right here. Throwing 15 or 18 balls on the field, there's absolutely no excuse for that and that is so typical of Chicago Cub fans. It's unbelievable."
"Throwing the ball back, that's great, that's a Chicago Cub tradition that other teams have picked up on, and that's fine."
"It's ridiculous, it really is ... You simply root against them. I've said all winter, people talk about this team winning the division, and my comment is they won't win it because at the end of the day, they're still the Chicago Cubs and they will figure out a way to screw this whole thing up.
Brantley: "And then they'll have no one to boo but themselves.
Brennaman: "Well, they never blame themselves."
Brantley: "They'll blame that old billy goat."
Brennaman: "Yep."
All right, so because a dozen fans throw balls on the field at the same time, it's easy to classify every single Cubs fan as an obnoxious fan. That's fine. People have been making that assumption for years. It seems to make foes of the Cubs feel better about themselves. A few people get out of hand, blame everybody. Wrigley Field is the only place where this ever happens. It never happens anywhere else. That's established. So what Marty has done here so brilliantly and through a well thought out process of just being a ornery old fuck, the Cubs won't win the division because of the fans. That could be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, but what do I know, I'm only an obnoxious drunk fan who doesn't know a thing about baseball.
So I'm trying to think, why is this insufferable old gash taking the Cubs fans so harshly to task? Could it be that he's jealous the Cubs actually have fans show up to ball games, unlike the Cincinnati Reds? Was he jealous at the time that the Cubs were whooping the Reds ass? Is he jealous because the Reds continue to suck? Or is he still hung up over the fact that the Cubs organization passed over his son, Thom Brennaman, to hire Chip Carey to replace Harry Carey fulltime as the Cubs play by play announcer? Is Marty pathetic enough to still hold a grudge over this? By his comments of the Cubs fans blowing it for the Cubs this season, it's safe to say yes, Marty Brennaman is pathetic enough to hold a grudge this long. (Hey Marty, advise your douche-tastic son not to announce in condescending monotone.)
Posts
0 comments: