Drunken Cards & Cubs Fans
Posted In: People, Propaganda, Sports
They need not go out in public, they need not talk baseball, and they need to remember that they are on opposite sides. No more than 30 minutes ago a friend (one that wasn’t allowed to go to the mall with me when we were young because I was “bad”) and I were verbally sparring about baseball and such, all in good fun. He started to get a little upset, but nothing worth reporting. At some point Ozzie Smith was brought up and I pointed out that I believe that Omar Vizquel was a better player. Mind you this is my opinion, I am not trying to pass this off as fact. My friend, the Cardinal’s fan was having none of it. At this point, still a non story. Then out of nowhere a drunk Cubs fan comes to the Cardinals fan’s aid. “You’re crazy,” he leads off with. I said, “You’d be suprised, compare their stats and you will see they are very similar.” No dice, “You’re crazy.” I said, “He has 10 gold gloves and was arguably a better hitter.”
This guy then tells me that he is “stupider” for hearing this and that he’d bet me $200 dollars that Vizquel didn’t have 10 gold gloves. “I am amazed I am listening to this…so you’re saying that A-Rod and Jeter didn’t have gold gloves then?” And this was right after he bashed them and told me Ozzie was a better hitter than both. A-Rod and Jeter ended Omar’s run of 9 consecutive gold gloves, but Omar got his in before they hit their stride.
The moral of the story is that chances are this guy never heard the comparison and thought he knew something. However he was a dildonic douche and chimed in on something he knew nothing about and coincidently in favor of a player that is most identified as the face of the team he grew up hating. So this idiot could have been a few hundred dollars closer to broke had I served him up and all because he was drunk and wanted to argue. A true cubs fan would have served up a name like Nomar or Jody or Penguin or Neifi and not picked a side but created a new one in their own world. What happened to those days? Did the Cubs fans give up or just approve a merger?
I sure am sorry he feels all stupider and stuff….YUCK
Do the math your self if you care - they are at least comparable:
Ozzie Smith & Omar Vizquel
22 Sep 2006 Grown Pumpkin
Omar had 10 gold gloves. Omar’s career offensive #s are better…Ozzie was nothing in the early part of his career with the bat. He developed into an offensive weapon in his own right (as far as a #2 hitter who could move runner around and steal, etc. and fit the system…need a name?). Omar has a strong claim to the Hall of Fame, which will be recognized by the voters.
HOWEVER…Punkin. I see where you’re goin. You’ll act like the Wizard got into Cooperstown on the basis of some smoke and mirrors and backflips. Fuggetaboutit. Ozzie belongs where he is, and if you wanna go…then I’m talking ’bout me an’ you toe-to-toe. So go ahead and make your claim. I’ll still be here to defend the greatest defensive weapon of all time. I’m just tellin you…don’t do it, burrow.
BURF?
That was a fantastic comment on my part given the fact that I don’t remember writing a single word of it.
And let’s not forget that we can go to the Dirty and find the Chavos/Falcons fans spewing the same weak tea. You act as if idiotic drunken commentary is a phenomenon unique to the fans of the Central Illy.
As a totally neutral (and mostly disinterested) third-party, I have GLANCED at the two players’ averages, and I declare them to be HIGHLY SIMILAR.
That’s all I have for you. Now, I’m hungry.
The whole point of what I wrote has nothing to do with the “afro ninja that didn’t fall while flipping” or Omar Vizquel, it was that some Cubs fan came blindly to the aid of a Cardinals fan without ANY knowledge of what he was talking about. Also the golden part was that I made him feel different about himself by being sooooooo way off.
Since the comment turned into an Oz vs.OM, you’ll notice that one of them has more than a hundred fewer errors than the other.(hint: he’s not in Cooperstown)
Lastly, if you ever hear a Falcon fan come to the rescue of a Bucs or Panthers fan in an argument, please advise me and I will take care of it with some hot gravy and by placing his nuts on the dresser, just his nuts, and banging them with a spiked bat.
If the post is about a Cubs fan’s antics, why is it titled “Drunken Cards and Cubs fans?”
Are we “blindly” lumping the two into one pot here?
Ozzie’s career average is currently .001 higher that OV and he’s got over 200 more steals…and a ring
here’s a good idea…quit going around doggin on Hall of Famers (at least those in the baseball HOF, the 2nd hardest in all of sports to get into)
It was written about my drunk Cardinal fan friend and the random drunk Cub fan - thus the title.
Truthfully I would have voted Ozzie in on the first ballot just because of his value to his team, city, franchise, and everything else other than his value to Tony “Tight Pants” Larussa and Royce Clayton.
You make a valid point about the ring and the steals. You were considerably off on the batting average though. (Ozzie .262 < Omar .276) Omar has played 4 less seasons than the Wizard did and has already surpassed him in RBI’s, Hits, HR’s, OBP, SLG, and matched him in doubles
I was looking at his “translated” BA…whatever that is
Punkin wrote:
“The whole point of what I wrote has nothing to do with the ‘afro ninja that didn’t fall while flipping’ or Omar Vizquel, it was that some Cubs fan came blindly to the aid of a Cardinals fan without ANY knowledge of what he was talking about. Also the golden part was that I made him feel different about himself by being sooooooo way off.”
I’m gonna take you to task on this again. If the post is about the remarks of the Cubs fan, then why is the post title saturated with implicit detestation for drunken Cardinals fans? Apparently, T-Real was only expressing (what is, according to your definition) a legitimate opinion that Ozzie was better than Omar (albeit in a drunken state). Is it equally as legitimate as saying that Omar is better?…shouldn’t your post be titled “Punkin, Drunk Cards Fan, Drunk Cubs Fan” or (in the alternative) “Drunk Cubs Fan?”