To Cubs fans, Love Mets fans

The purpose of this week’s column was to get people riled up. Actually that is the purpose of my column every week. I posted a “Rant” on the Rants and Raves north side Chicago section of www.Craigslist.com. For those of you who are not familiar with this particular website, it is a website that allows people in basically every community on Earth to connect with each other so they can do anything from selling a car to finding a job. If you still haven’t heard of this site then read the rest of this article, quit your job, move to Alaska, and learn to become a professional ice fisherman. You can find the Rants and Raves section right under the “Missed Connections” section. If you frequent Missed Connections then it should be a law that you are required to move to Alaska and become an ice fisherman. Regardless, if you take life too seriously then don’t ever visit Rants and Raves. It is only for people who have a strong stomach and can tolerate incoherent babble. It is also a place to communicate with random people across the country.

In this particular scenario I wanted to write a Rant for the people of Chicago to read, specifically Cubs fans. The italic content below describes an experience that I had at the May 14^th Mets Vs, Cubs game. This is what I posted.

TO CUBS FANS, LOVE METS FANS

I just wanted to let you losers know that while I was at Shea Stadium last night watching the NEW YORK METS show you guys who the best team in the NL is, I encountered a very rowdy, uneducated, ugly, horrible accented, Midwesterner who thought it was a prudent idea to start talking trash to MY fellow fans at MY stadium. Now I am not against other teams fans coming to New York to watch their home team play, but if you do happen to brave the streets here, then you should realize that it's not a great idea to start smack-talking to us. In fact it is incredibly stupid. You will get put in your place. Please believe it.

This bumble **c* started to act "hard" when the Cubby's were winning 4-0 in the 4th inning. He was screaming and yelling his head off while waiting on the sausage and pepper line about how the Cubs were the best team, blah, blah, blah. Since there was no one else around to stop him from exhibiting this inappropriate behavior, I decided to put him in his place. There are many people like me who consider Shea Stadium their second habitat. Are you going to let someone come into your home and disrespect you? I just happened to be the one who needed to stop this fallacious drunken tirade. We began to verbally spar.

After some drunken tough guy talk, He finally formed some sentences that I could comprehend, Continuing to ride his “Four to zero in the 4^th inning score” horse into the sunset. I informed him that the Cubs have not been in the World Series since Eleanor Roosevelt was the first lady. This flew over his head faster than trying to explain what Myspace is to the players at your Grandmother’s Bridge game. His only slurred response was "The Bears are the bestest team, when was the last time the Jets were in the World Ser...I mean Super Bowl" I tell him to shut up and remind him that Rex Grossman is horrible and it doesn't matter cause the Bears suck and they got their ass kicked by the Colts anyway. He whispers to his friend "I think I am going to get in a fight tonight". I go "No your not" and I was right, he wasn't. He walked away without doing anything. Cause he was a little b***h ass baby.

Bottom Line Chicagolanders...

DO NOT COME TO MY STADIUM AND ACT TOUGH CAUSE YOUR TEAM IS WEAK, IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN, AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH MONEY YOU SPEND!!!!!!

By the way we came back and won 5-4 on a walk off walk

good night

P.S. Bartman. Nuff said.

Now that may be a little harsh, but trust me, it is pedestrian compared to some of the other posts on Craigslist. I wanted it to be a ruthless and insensitive so it would elicit a response, and then post some of that response in this article. But to my surprise, there was no comeback of any kind. The only response I got was from a White Sox fan who agreed with me completely on everything I said and posted a rant that was even more outrageous than the one I wrote. I was surprised by some of the things he said and it was interesting to read how fans in another city with two baseball teams acted towards each other. Here is the link. Do not click if curses offend you.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/rnr/331671070.html

Just to clarify, I don’t go to Shea Stadium looking to fight fans of other teams. I do enjoy some smack talk though here and there, but I am a grown ass man and the last thing I want to do is to get arrested for fighting some drunken Midwesterner while in line waiting for the concession attendant to charge me nine dollars for a snausage and pepper hero. I’d also like to clarify that I love the city of Chicago. I have visited on numerous occasions and enjoyed myself each time. I really don’t have a problem with Chicagolanders at all. I did find it interesting that no one responded to my rant considering the amount of responses that one would get if they posted a similar anti-Mets rant in the New York section of R&R.

I’d like to ask the reader. What you would do if you were on a concession line and there was someone screaming anti-Mets obscenities? Would you react differently? Let the people speak!