The first involves bashing my favorite ignorant and half-stupid baseball columnist Jeff Passan who said these things about the Cardinals:
On the Cardinals accepted mediocrity for the season: "True enough, though the Cardinals seem stuck in that abyss of mediocrity that swallows so many teams. New GM John Mozeliak sees enough in the cupboard not to clear it out completely, and so Pujols delays the inevitable Tommy John surgery that will keep him out for a year to play with a team that will acquaint itself with mediocrity only under the most fortuitous of circumstances."
On Rico Washington's comment: "We’ve got great fans here in St. Louis.”
Passan: "Didn’t take long to brainwash him, either. Cardinals fans think highly of themselves because they clap for a strong throw or a well-executed sacrifice or hustle to prevent a double play. In reality, it’s their blind loyalty that’s most admirable, their willingness to pack stadiums even when the Cardinals stink."
And on the most storied tradition in all of sport's opening days: "Clompy the Clydesdale is complaining about hoof pain."
Jeff Passan can kiss my ass.
True, I've written numerous times about St. Louis fans being bandwagoners. But that's only because I've been around, I've seen how quickly St. Louis fans take Jason Isringhausen's pitching and took Scott Rolen's defense for granted. For fans that do know A LOT about baseball, it seemed ironic and stupid to me that fans were jumping ship on players so quickly.
But for Passan to say that we should stop attending ballgames at Busch Stadium in order for management to improve spending, and from there, our ballclub, ranks as one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. Where does this guy get off talking about St. Louis fans this way?
He's from Kansas City. If I saw him in the streets tomorrow I'd ask him where low attendance and craphole fans has gotten his franchise the last 39 years. 23 losing seasons, and only one winning season in the last 12 years. That's where.
No thanks, Passan. We have no interest in sucking that bad. Keep your uneducated and completely ignorant thoughts to yourself. We here at the mighty semosportsweb.com would rather read "War and Peace" 415 times and look at a fat, naked J-Lo than have to read your crap and look at your picture.
And secondly, I'm already sick of hearing about Coors Light's new cans. When is Coors Brewing Company going to stop making better cans and start making better beer? It would be easy to sell your crappy product if it didn't taste like mud water. Forget about your trendy cans, and start making good beer. That's the key to your success.
And last but not least, the next time you're drinking real beer send out a toast to the St. Louis Cardinals puttin' it to all the baseball experts who think we're going to suck and be the worst team ever.
I momentarily regretted yelling violently at Steve Phillips as he sat on the field doing a postgame ditty following the Cardinals World Series victory. I was harsh enough towards the man that he actually took the time to acknowledge me with a head nod during a commercial break. And to be honest, I felt like I was giving St. Louis fans a bad name there for a minute. But after hearing all these guys continually give their nods to the coast teams with the big budgets and simply signing everybody else off so early in the season, without really studying the potential of these teams, especially the Cardinals...they can kiss my ass too.
8 comments:
You know, for a sports website, you guys sure talk about Beer alot. Ever think that some kids might read this. I don't think promoting alcohol is very benifial for your site....
I think that this country has many greater concerns than this website saying the word "beer". Give me a break buddy. Your barking up the wrong tree. I think I would spend time worrying about the millions of xxx sites that children can access without even meaning to. Get a life and complain about a real problem for this world.
You guys sure talk about beer alot? WHAT??!? That gets my vote for the dumbest comment on a blog so far in 2008.
Im just saying, its a SPORTS website. Yet they talk about beer more than every other sports website I've ever been to
I don't read every single blog, but I'm having a hard time remembering it being mentioned all that much. God forbid we say the word 'beer'. Now all the kids are going to be alcoholics. Nevermind that any time they watch a baseball game they're going to see several beer ads.
PS: vodka vodka vodka whiskey...ooo
What a dumb argument about beer. That's like getting upset at beer commercials that show guys sitting around watching a football game. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IF IT'S A BEER COMMERCIAL, WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY SHOW FOOTBALL??? Get a life. This is a prime example of somebody pointing the finger at the wrong source of a problem.
fwiw - Passan is a native New Yorker, went to school at Syracuse, wrote for the KC Star for a year, and now lives in Chicagoland.
I was actually worried about saying "kiss my ass" much more than I was worried about mentioning beer.
But, maybe I'll cut back on the beer comments. I understand the concern. And I also understand that beer is a major part of sports, whether we like that fact or not.
I certainly never mention beer when talking about high school sports. But, it's my job to be able to relate to a variety of groups in my blogs. And I know that a big part of the blogs following is of age, and can relate to the topic of beeer and sports. There's no denying it's one of America's great traditions.
I also understand that athletes and students that are underage do read the blog as well. But I've certainly never thought that I was a big enough voice to persuade their ideals towards the subject.
But I'll take the suggestion into consideration, and I appreciate the comment.
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