Friday, July 24, 2009
Chicagoland / Sports Cubs fan FAIL
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.24.09 at 05:36 PM
I try to be nice to Cubs fans, but this made me laugh. (h/t Mo)
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Um, no. "Cubs fan FAIL", while grammatically incorrect, is not redundant. Redundancy is having two or three units to do a job where one would suffice, sort of like Streets & Sanitation workers. In linguistic terms, all three words would have to mean approximately the same thing; assuming you take "Cubs fan" as a single unit, you could not replace it with the word "FAIL". For one thing, they're different parts of speech...
OK, even if we take the word "FAIL" in its currently popular noun form (as on the FAILblog), the assertion that "Cubs fan" = "FAIL" falls short of the truth. While the Cubs TEAM has many times in the past failed, it's not fair to say the same of the fans, who have often been the only good thing the team has had going. The oversized children stumbling around Wrigleyville in a puke-stained stupor for three hours after the game are not the fans in question, but rather the retired couple marking their scorecard in the nosebleed section, or the 10-year-old sneaking out of class in the middle of a math quiz to check the score on a Cubs pocket radio. The middle-aged man who, upon inspection of his baseball card collection, sees that he must have at one point in his childhood gone through the shoebox and either thrown out or drawn mustaches and horns on a large number of non-Cubs players. No, if one makes the effort to distinguish them from the shirtless, slobbering morons who use the ballpark as their personal beer garden and vomitorium, one has to look hard to find better or more dedicated sports fans, than those of the Chicago Cubs.
Cubs fans get a bad rap for being drunk a-holes but in reality they are only more present because tail-gating is an impossibility. Also another thing people "fail" to remember about Cubs fans, is that they can drink as much as they want without having to worry about driving home. They know they can take a train, cab, or bus without having to worry about killing someone or getting into trouble.
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