Top 9 Reasons It Sucks to be a Brewer Fan

This coming from somebody rooting for the team that hasn’t won a World Series in 100 years and actually believe that a goat has cursed them. I’ll take the city of suds anyday.

Strong words from a team that’s NEVER won a World Series, mate.

If the Brewers somehow go another 60 years without winning one, come back and ask me and I’ll let you know which is worse.

Ha, wow snarky post Joe, so unlike you. Sorry to interrupt the trash talking, carry on.

A member of a fanbase that worshipped the poster boy for the steroid era lecturing other teams on “class.”

Nice!

Re: #7

If Eric Gagne and Ned Yost were given side-by-side train tickets out of Milwaukee, I think the general consensus among Brewer fans would be jubilation. Gagne was the single most expensive mistake in Brewer history, the team would be better without him and he brings all kinds of other baggage that’s the opposite of fantastic. Yost…well, Yost has cost us enough games to lead us to develop a term for it, the Yosting. Certainly, as a franchise that recently rid itself of Dusty Baker, you can understand what that’s like.

I don’t have a problem with Prince choosing the ninth inning to voice his displeasure over a game’s worth of ball and strike calls that you’ve admitted you also think were wrong. If the calls are bad the calls are bad, and the ninth inning of a foregone conclusion game seems to be a relatively risk-free time to express your opinion on it. The game was still over early enough for most people to scramble home and catch the beginning of So You Think You Could Retch.

It takes a special kind of douche nozzle to make me pull for the Cubs but the Brewers managed it with their behavior at Busch last week. I bet Ted Simmons wanted put his size 12 up Braun’s ass. Nice work Cubs.

“Douche nozzle”.

Snicker.

The watching the home run no problem (even though its only his second year but thats another argument)pitchers do much worse the problem was the untucking of the shirts after the game like they just won the AAU championship.

Like the dude said above:

all teams have some complete idiotic buffoons that embarrass other fans of the same team. No team is immune.

And i won’t go into why some clubs from large markets have a larger than average % of assclowns in the fanbase. And how that reputation earns them a widely recognized “most annoying fanbase in sports.” Cause it’s the same problem any group of people has, just different degrees.

But what I do want to get into is how much Joe knows about baseball, and top 10 lists. Cause i believe i could accidentally scribble out a better top ten list of why it sucks to be a brewer fan, and i think it is awesome to be a brewer fan.

and i’ll do the top 10 list correctly (you typically count down to one you troglodyte).

9. yes, some people are different (for example people not like you have a sense of humor), congrats on recognizing it, it’s an important step in joining society.

8. wow, it sucks to be a milwaukee brewers fan because the brewers are from milwaukee. clever. you must be from des moines. i refer to this a the iowa cub fan oedipus complex.

7. laporta is blocked in milwaukee, blocked prospects get traded in franchises that are properly run. at least milwaukee got something out of laporta. chicago got 4 games as the starting CF from pie, who was once worth bedard, and now not worth arthur rhodes. but that’s real basebally stuff, so don’t concern yourself over that.

6. joke right? one man’s trash and all… self-deprecating humor is way out of place here though… pass to imcomprehensible.

5. nice, sucks to be a fan cause we haven’t been the world series in over 25 years. in the rest of the baseball world, the lovable loser syndrome is considered a psychological disorder on par with anxiety induced impotence. ya follow? no? it’s like you are so wrapped up in winning a world series that you can’t enjoy baseball for baseball. you’ve actually grown addicted to failure and love baseball for the express purpose of experiencing failure and misery. where else in the world is this monumental futility advertised other than wrigley field? AC 00 67 … what’s the keystroke for a sideways 8?

4. uh, the american league is considered the junior circuit, also check the bud selig connection and learn a little baseball history.

3. you find bernie brewer exciting?

2. ah the prince is fat joke, the hallmark of the kid from iowa or kansas who lost touch with his frat pack and needs to find an outlet to degrade other humans, and since the cubs are his new frat pack, the brewers are the new nerds. also the prices: bleacher tickets: miller-$12, wrigley-$45.

1. yep, sucks to get swept.

really, seems like you had one reason that it sucks to be a brewer fan, which is losing a series at home, and the hamster running your brain wheel died sometime between the point you decided you needed a top 10 list, and you type “2.”

you luck cub fan, you’ve got the best team in the NL this year, only way they don’t get to lose the WS is if they fuck it up. enjoy the ride. also, expect “smug cub fan” to link back to posts like these. you cave man frat boy inferiority complex-laden dolt.

Yes, Eddings was horrible, but he was horrible both ways. You’ll obviously recall the pitch before Edmond’s grand slam. However, I agree that it was a silly situation, and Fielder was just ready to be done for the day. I’m not sure why he didn’t do it sooner, and I don’t really care, but I was amused that we were that far inside their heads. This was a mental sweep, and it’s going to take its toll on the Brewers in perhaps stronger fashion than we’d think.

Gosh, there have been a BUNCH of horrible umps this year, though, haven’t there?

And as for the class issue? I agree with the guy posting above. Every team has their own butt-clowns that imbibe and pontificate wherever they are. But every team also has some excellent fans with primo baseball knowledge and understanding. It’s fun to talk to them.

As for the Cubs being more of the first? Maybe, I don’t know. I think you just tend to hear those people the loudest of any fans, so if you hear alot of them, I think it just means that the Cubs have ALOT of fans. I’d say for every butt-clown, there’s a decent guy or gal who just likes to watch baseball and enjoy the game. fact is, you don’t hear from them.

Maybe the Brewers are too small of a market to have that many butt-clowns =)

Maybe the Brewers are too small of a market to have that many butt-clowns =)

yeah they have them they just actually play for the Brewers

Couldn’t you find one more for an even 10? Who puts out Top Nine lists?

Wow. The same joke by two “different” posters. Either you can’t read or you’re this sad.

I don’t mind all the Cubs fans coming to a great stadium and pumping up our economy.

But the number one reason it sucks to be a Cubs fan… By mid-September, you have already given up on your Baseball and Football team!

All in good fun!

Top ten reasons it sucks to be a Cubs fan:
10. You are a large market team with a big payroll and still can’t win.
9. You have to breathe in all that Chicago smog you can’t ship up the shores of Lake Michigan.
8. You have to vacation in Wisconsin because there is nothing redeeming about Illinois.
7. You choke every pennant race (not just last year) and have been the butt of all baseball jokes since blowing the biggest ever September lead to the Miracle Mets before I was even born.
6. You have to root for the Bears and Blackhawks…ouch!
5. You have won exactly as many World Series as the team you deride in the last 99+ years, even though that team has only existed for about a third of that time.
4. Your city means “Stinking Onion” whereas Milwaukee means “the Good Land.”
3. Your hometown is known most for Alphonse Capone, whereas ours is known for beer.
2. You have more murders in one of your housing projects each year than the entire city of Milwaukee.
And the number one reason it sucks to be a Cubs fan…you know the educational system is better in Wisconsin because you can’t even think of ten reasons it sucks to be a Brewers fan!

10. You are a large market team with a big payroll and still can’t win.

Huh? The Cubs aren’t winning? The Cubs are about to become one of a handful of teams to be in the playoffs 3 of the last 6 years.

7. You choke every pennant race (not just last year) and have been the butt of all baseball jokes since blowing the biggest ever September lead to the Miracle Mets before I was even born.

Huh? The Cubs choked last year in the pennant race? Nice selective memory, being that the Brewers are the ones who choked away a nice lead.

8. You have to vacation in Wisconsin because there is nothing redeeming about Illinois.

Never vacationed in Wisconsin. But yea – you should be really proud of those great water park resorts in the Dells. Nothing like cheesy (pun intended) vacations. And the fact that you know nothing about vacation possibilities in Illinois just shows your ignorance.

6. You have to root for the Bears and Blackhawks…ouch!</

5. You have won exactly as many World Series as the team you deride in the last 99+ years, even though that team has only existed for about a third of that time.

At least we have been in the playoffs multiple times since your last playoff appearance.

4. Your city means “Stinking Onion” whereas Milwaukee means “the Good Land.”

Who cares what the name of the city means. We still have a better baseball team.

3. Your hometown is known most for Alphonse Capone, whereas ours is known for beer.

It may be known for beer, but it is crappy beer.

2. You have more murders in one of your housing projects each year than the entire city of Milwaukee.

Well… being that there are probably more Cubs fans outside of Chicago than the entirety of Brewers fans, I am not sure how that is relevant to being a Cubs fan.

But regardless… you are wrong about your stats, which isn’t a surprise. But good try though. And looking at the number of murders is foolish anyway. Chicago has a slightly higher murder rate, which is the more relevant number. But I am sure you know that. Okay… I guess I really am not sure that you know that.

And the number one reason it sucks to be a Cubs fan…you know the educational system is better in Wisconsin because you can’t even think of ten reasons it sucks to be a Brewers fan!

Well… the Wisconsin education system can’t be that good, being that you can’t even do basic math on the number of murders in the cities.

ddave:
10. The Cubs have a history of winning three of the last six years? Wow, I’m impressed. That counters the history of what, four or five playoff appearances the previous 90+.
9. This was a reference to the writer’s assertion of the BREWERS choking last year–i.e. unlike us, who choked only once, you have choked many times (see above).
8. Since you have never vacationed in Wisconsin, I will make allowances for your lack of knowledge about our many non-commercial vacation destinations FIBs flock to outside of the Dells, which I agree are cheesy (and not in the good way that pizza can be cheesy!). We have the most lakes/square mile in this country, and if you are into relaxing, boating, fishing, and swimming in prestine waters, please keep your preconceptions about what little we have to offer so we don’t have to put up with you!
6. Let me get this straight–you are bragging about LOSING a Superbowl? If it’s not about winning the VINCE LOMBARDI TROPHY, then you still have less to talk about than we do. We’ve had exactly as many (one) losing seasons in the last sixteen as you had in the last one.
5. Again, you are bragging about choking in the playoffs with the payrolls you have had instead of losing in the regular season with what (until this year) was one of the smallest payrolls in the game? Sad.
4 and 2. That’s the best you can do? Being a Cubs fan is as relevant to living in Chicago as being a Brewers fan is to living in Milwaukee, which was given as one of the reasons it sucks to be a Brewers fan.
1. Back in the 90′s when I lived in Milwaukee, there were as many murders in Cabrini Green as the whole city of Milwaukee. I understand that project has been shut down, but I do not doubt that you have neighborhoods in your city that at least compete with the 100 or so murders in the entire city of Milwaukee. At worst, I am guilty of using outdated information here.
As for #3, YOU GOT ME THERE–I actually though about not using that because I agree that the beer we are known for (Miller and formerly Pabst) is crap. I am personally a Sam Adams man and there is a beer close to its quality from the East Side Brewery in Milwaukee (Riverwest Stein), but I know you have a lot of quality microbrews there, too.

I am a die-hard Brewers fan and I can admit, the Cubs completely kick our asses in the last series and made the Brewers look like a bunch of little leaguers, but I feel a few things need to be said here.
1. Matt Jacobs, Cubs fans post on Brewer sites so quit your bitching
2. Cubs fans, as much as you may not want to admit it, you are probably some of the most obnoxious fans in baseball. Cardinal fans and Twins fans flock to Miller Park in great numbers every year and they don’t cause problems. Not only do Cubs fans beat the shit out of a Brewer fan in the most recent series, they also vandalize our park. I know that not all of you are like that, but your fan base seems to have a higher percentage of ass holes in it. Red Sox fans get a bad rep too, but I was at a Brewers game at Fenway earlier this year and the Sox fans were nice. They kicked our asses too but their fans didn’t rub it in our face like Cubs fans do.
3. The Brewers may not have been to the post season in 26 years, but at least they have been to a world series more recently than the Cubs, who haven’t made it there since 1945. 1908 was a long time ago and the Brewers franchise won’t even exist for more than 60 years. The Cubs have been around so much longer than the Brewers so they can be excused for having fewer titles. Also, Milwaukee had a world series champion team in 1957.
4. The facts must be faced from both sides. As much as I and other Brewer fans don’t want to admit it, the Cubs are a good team. The Brewers may have looked pathetic in the last series, but they are also a good team. You kicked our asses yes, but we moved on, and we’ve already shaved a game off of your lead in the NLC and we’re not going away. It’s fun for Brewers fans to say that the Cubs will choke like they always do, but this is going to be a battle all the way to the end (keep in mind, the final series of the year is Cubs @ Brewers). Enjoy your sweep but realize that the Brewers are still a good team and are still in the race.

1. No, I said SEPTEMBER collapse: the Cubs had a bigger lead at the beginning of September than the Mets; the Mets blew the biggest two-week lead ever.
2. Good point, but the Cubs have still had a bigger payroll in the last decade-plus than the Crew.
3. Agreed.
4. I actually do not know to what you are referring since at that time I was lamenting the Crew’s hiring of Rene Lachman who turned a perennial contender into a cellar dweller. It took us two years to get back to respectability. So I wasn’t watching the Cubbies much then even though I had WGN.
5. Nice. I lived in Dallas for a while, but I hear Houston is worse–just as hot, more humid, worse air quality. You have my sympathy.
6. I no longer live in Milwaukee (San Francisco), but as ddave aptly pointed out, the beer “we” are famous for is mostly crap anyway.
7. Thanks. I also would rather play the Cubs. In fact, if we do not win the whole thing, I hope the Cubs do, despite the petulance of the writer of this article.
8. LOL! I do show pity–and also for the Bears (are those McCoskeys ever gonna get the cranial enemas they so badly need to give you guys the consistent team you deserve?) and Blackhawks, but at least the Wirtzes seem to be turning things around.
9. When CC covers first on a grounder to Prince, the world is thrown off its axis!
10. No, I am glad to have reason to care about baseball this late in the year…if nothing else, it distracts me from the most overdone story of the NFL!
You can be my drinking Buddy anytime–if you come out to the City by the Bay, drop me a line! (I write on The Frozen Tundra and THe Cold Shoulder–San Jose Sharks–here on MVN.

First in 1984 NL president Bill White at the last minute to take game 5 NL championship series away from Chicago (2CC-2 SP- 1CCgiving the cubs home field) so the game could be played at night (Wrigley did not have lights yet) taking the series from Chicago giving it to the Padres. Three words Lone Star beer need I say more…and sure I wind up going to LA every great now and then for business. But seriously the METS melt down was a lot worse than 69 CUBS look at the two teams the cubs where falling apart in August (no bench) plus the METS had a killer rotation with a young Nolan Ryan…thus we (CUB FANS) lived with August heat being the reason we sucked not the cheap ass Wrigley family that was cheap ass owners…but in fairness to all the playoffs were 2 NL 2AL a lot of great teams missed because of the playoff system….and let me say one thing last all the teams in the central division where dogs of the league this year we are kicking ass…but the Cardinals still suck

Because Cubs fans go on Brewer blogs and do the exact same thing.

Matt Jacobs: That is a really selective definition of civility. It is not civil to say “Your team plays in Milwaukee. Can it get any worse?” or to say that we are too drunk to notice our mascot isn’t sliding into beer. I talked trach because the article dissed my city and my team. Just givin’ back what was given out. You gonna complain why? You can dish it out but you can’t take it?
Buddy: I agree that the Mets meltdown last year was much worse than the Cubs in ’69, even though I used the term “worst September meltdown” to describe yours. Technically, my description was accurate as the Cubs lead on 9/1 was wider, but I hope no one blows seven games in fourteen days again…unless maybe it’s the Yanks!

Thank you, Doug. I have always respected Cubs fan as nearly on par with Packers fans, selling out games even when losing, always bleeding their team’s colours. And yes, those Sox fans have been so unbearable I have almost begun rooting for the Yanks! (I said almost–leave me alone!)

Jose–I came to this site to defend attacks on my hometown. Are you seriously suggesting that no one but Cubs fans should come to this blog? Because I want people to come to the Packers blog, and if we wrote something denigrating Chicago, I would expect someone to fire back.
I also enjoy reading blogs of other teams, and do not intend to stop.
Of course you are ALLOWED to post anything, but that doesn’t mean you should. I don’t think it speaks well of someone to disrespect another, and don’t expect to get respect if you do.

I thought it was funny…and should be taken like a grain of sand unless you got sweptin 4 games at home

I think it is so ridiculous to say “this is a Cubs site” so keep your Brewers stuff somewhere else. This is a website and people come here to read and discuss. We can take the back and forth as long as it stays within the bounds it should stay within.
I am a Cubs fan and sometimes I do get a chance to write. As I said in my last post I was at two of the games last week in Milwaukee and it was great. The atmosphere was good natured. The people are genuinely friendly until imbibed like the bonehead sitting to the side of me who kept doing “wanking” gestures to the Cubs fans sitting behind him. And the rivalry is fun but I fear it will not stay that way. I really hope it does.
OK so I must admit, the most clueless comment as I can see it came from the Cub fan who said the thing about the problem the packers have is figuring out what to do with their Hall of Fame quarterback. PLEASE GIVE THE BEARS THAT PROBLEM IN MY LIFETIME. I would like to have a quarterback who is going to be a clear hall of famer. I would like the decades of winning and the multiple Super Bowls and NFC Championship games. I would like the guy who would be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL year after year. So if say miraculously Orton or Grossman become a Hall of Fame type quarterback, I would not mind having the issue the Packers are facing right now. It astounds me that we would be making fun of it. It is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
Poor, sad, lonely Bears quarterbacks.

Speaking of classy … reminds me of Carlos Zambrano beating the crap out of Michael Barrett last year.

Bottom line the Cubs haven’t won a World Series in 99 years so it makes sense that fans would want to rip on the Brewers for never winning one. But the Cubs have a 60 year head start … so if the Brewers go another 6 decades without winning a championship and the Cubs win this year …then the two franchises would be equal losers.

But first things first … the Cubs should try just getting to the World Series. That would be major accomplishment for Cubs fans, coming in 2nd.