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Madtowntripper
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Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck.
#5482495 - 04/05/06 11:32 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I'm from Chicago, and have been a lifelong Bears/Cubs/Bulls fan. This has caused me no small amount of heartache and grief over the years. It is a curse to like teams that will always, in the absence of a bolt of lightning from heaven, suck.
You can say "Well, the bulls won 6 championships not long ago". This is not really true. Michael Jordan won 6 championships w/ the bulls. We're one of the worst teams in the NBA since he left. We are mired in mediocrity. People are clamoring that we'll make the playoffs this year. What? And lose to D-Town in 4 games? That should be fun to watch.
The Bears, well, they're just the Bears. Even in Chicago, nobody really expects much usually. Last year was the exception. I was predicting a super bowl victory, and what happens? We inexplicably get stomped by a team we crushed earlier in the season. Someone decides that covering one of the best receivers in the game should be optional that day. This pissed me off. I'd love to say I'll never watch the Bears again, but I'll be back again next year, like a fucking junkie.
These arent even my true loves. I really really love baseball, and the Cubs have always been my team. Remember the last time the cubs won a championship? Neither does anyone else who's still alive. We spend a shit-ton of money, seem to be in a position to contend, and then some horrible shit-rain of adversity from the sky sends us running for cover. Two years ago, we had two of the best pitchers in the league. Now, neither of them is pitching, and one of them is effectively done. Two years ago, Prior/Wood/Zambrano. Now we have Zambrano/Rusch/Williams. (Who!?) To add insult to injury, the White Sox won the world series. The Fucking White Sox. You couldnt give away tickets to a White Sox game until the play-offs last year.
Anyway...I'm just writing this because the Cubs game is getting ugly. I'm in the other room, and all I hear is Cincy fans going crazy, so I assume we're getting our asses kicked. Its the second game of the season, and I'm already convinced disaster is looming.
Its gonna be a long year....
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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daimyo
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5482810 - 04/05/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: daimyo]
#5482860 - 04/05/06 01:03 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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See? Theres someone who understands how I feel...
The Indians suck, the Browns Suck, the Cavs are MAYBE on the right track, if they dont lose Lebron.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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daimyo
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5482870 - 04/05/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Cavs are pretty good when they've got their shit together. They have a chance this year. The Indians are going to destroy the AL.
But the Browns are still the Browns. They will forever suck.
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: daimyo]
#5482913 - 04/05/06 01:18 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I definitely went into this season an Indians fan...I loved watching them last year.
Shame about Crisp though - but I'm gonna love to hate him this year. 
I can't really identify with you guys...I'm a Yankee fan. But hey, the Jets fucking suck these days!
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5483121 - 04/05/06 02:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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When was the last time your overpaid group of Roid Freaks and Crybabies won a championship?
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5483123 - 04/05/06 02:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It has now been six years since we won a World Series, though we've gotten to one and lost it in that time.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5483129 - 04/05/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am a Buffalo Bills fan
I feel that pain
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: sucklesworth]
#5483552 - 04/05/06 04:23 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am a tigers fan.Our owner is a big nosed tightwad.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: sucklesworth]
#5483827 - 04/05/06 05:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
You_Suck said: I am a Buffalo Bills fan
I feel that pain
Being from CNY and a Buffalo Bills fan also I feel your pain.
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: kilroy69]
#5484165 - 04/05/06 07:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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kilroy69 said: I am a tigers fan.Our owner is a big nosed tightwad.
I'm a fellow Detroit Tigers fan. They have won a championship in my lifetime, but I was only 4 years old when that happened. I am excited about this season though. Hmmmm... i get excited every season. I should have learned by now. So far they've swept KC in two games, but they play Texas tomorrow.
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kilroy69
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Re: Irrational Love for Teams That Will Always Suck. [Re: Real_Poopypants]
#5484270 - 04/05/06 07:26 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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we won our starting series against them last year and did not end up too well. I am just looking for a .500 record. I am 30 now and I actually went to one of the games in the 84 series.
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Edited by kilroy69 (04/05/06 07:28 PM)
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