Should I say Go Cards?

Question

I'm a native St. Louisian, and I can't figure out what all this hype about a baseball team is about. I mean it's cool that we stick together and cheer on the same team, but when the Cardinals won the World Series, people started crying in public. Give me a break. Any insight on this phenomenon?

Answer 1

GIVE YOU A BREAK?? YOU HAVE MY PITY.

Uh, you'd just have to be a fan, miss, to understand.

*To go through a long, 6-month, 162 game season, year after year;
*to want so badly for Scott Rolen to get that 2-out base hit, which would put the Cards ahead of the hated Cubbies in the top of the 8th inning at Wrigley Field;

*to have run with, stealing 2nd base along with Lou Brock;

* to pray that the relief pitcher the skipper brought in can hold the Astros Killer B's;

* to dread with every other Cards fan, when the team used to make that late season West Coast swing, usually meaning losses to the Dodgers and the Giants;

* to religiously tune into KMOX, or some statick-y station, a ways off, every night in the heat of summer, until the cold of September, to listen to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon describe the game with such clarity, you literaly SAW the game in your head;

I'm sorry for you, because you cannot feel what every fan and I in the Cardinal nation feels now.
SHEER JOY...WE WON IT ALL, AFTER THIS SEASON

~The excruciating PAIN, of being swept two years ago, in the fall Classic by the once pathetic Boston Red Sox;

~The shock of the 1985 infamous Denkinger game, which robbed the Cards of the Championship against KC;

~ The history of this proud and Amazing team;

~ And, the kinship all of us fans feel, it is very subtle, very hard to describe, but it is a kinship which transcends time, connecting each of us now, with fans of the same team back in the 1930s; But also, it is also transcendent because all of us have also missed that ground ball under our gloves, or made that spectacular catch like Jimmy Edmonds did last season, in Cincinnati.
We have all done that.... or we have all committed that same error, it is a feeling near identity, with that player, that pitcher, that batter.

Yeah, I feel sorry for you, since you cannot shed tears of joy now, like I have since Friday night, when the final out was made, ending the Series, or keep that rare unerasable smile off of our faces, since that night, Friday.

For even the devoted fans of teams which have never won a championship feel that affection for their teams, and you fall short, sadly.

I dare say, that there are Montreal Expos fans still, who have felt that surge of anticipation, that thrill that you don't.

Baseball is just the best game in the whole world.

Answer 2

I have the reason(s) for this behavior.
People, especially white Europeans, which make up the bulk of American residents, generally have a hard time showing their emotions. I don't mean Italians or Hispanics, more so German, Irish, English, etc.
Its easier for people to pet a cute dog, then hug your brother or your aunt.
Its difficult for an American to shed a lot of tears at a funeral for Uncle Bernie, a few token tears usually.
But sports give us a reason to let our emotions loose, and have everybody be ok with it!
Now, I will say this. I am a Chicago White Sox fan, we won the series last year, but it was 88 long years. I'll give Sox fans, and the Boston ones too a pass for crying. But Cardinal fans? It hasn't been a LIFETIME of angst, so the crying part may be a little over the top for Cardinals fans.
But yelling, hugging, kissing, screaming, its all part of the sports fabric of America. And thats a good thing!

Answer 3

If you want to understand baseball and the reverent obsession of its fans, go watch "Field of Dreams". Although it is a little bit "twilight zone", there is a point in the movie where you will understand. And St Louis Cardinals fans are probably operating on a higher level as it pertains to the reverence of the game. Probably because of Midwest values, and a lack of cynicism that other city's cultures have. That is why great, future hall-of-fame players will actually sign contracts for less money then they could get from coastal teams for a chance to play in St Louis.
So yes. repeat after me. GO CARDS!

Answer 4

I'm was born in my beloved state of Connecticut. I Moved to Chicago. [ land of the low life cub and white sox fans ] And I'm a huge life long Cardinal fan. And yes I cried for joy when they won. If your not a Cardinal fan you will never know what the feeling is like.
You really have to know the rich history of the St. Louis Cardinals to know what I mean.

Answer 5

Put it this way.... my team LOST the World Series in their one and only appearance and I cried, ironically against St. Louis. Sports bring out emotion and passion for your team. If you don't get it, start going to games!

If Milwaukee won the Series, I would cry and scream.

Curses to the Cardinals!

Sincerely,
A Milwaukee Brewer Fan

Answer 6

If you don't get it, I don't think I can explain it to you. We have waited 24 years to experience this again. Many people here follow the Cardinals every single year, almost every game. It's like a religion!

Answer 7

St. Louis is not the only town that this happens in. See Boston, 2004.

Answer 8

crying is public should be made illegal. now rioting in the streets, that is really what should have been done when the cardinals won.
go mets!

Answer 9

They must love the game and it's up to you if you do or not.

Answer 10

nah...become a Yankees fan ;)