Comments about Cubs fans not being true baeball fans?

Question

A lot of people think Cubs fans aren't true baseball fans and that people only go there for the stadium. What is it about the stadium that brings them there? It's an old stadium, there's no jumbo tron, no dancing cheerleaders, no mascot running up and down the aisles getting in peoples view of the field. So the way I see it is that the fans actually do go there to watch baseball games.

Other newer stadiums have the jumbo trons and the mascots running around and cheerleaders (seriously cheerleaders in baseball). They run all of these promotional nights to do what they can to get them to the ballpark. For example bring your dog to the balpark night. There are actually people that think this is a great promotional idea. Yeah great promotional idea there. Let's have thousands of people bring their dogs and let them p**s and c**p in the aisles or let's have a dog bite a young kid. Better yet why don't we just find 2 dogs humping each other during the 7th inning stretch.

Answer 1

in those citys, baseball is tradition, just like americans with apple pie, or myself as a mexican with tamales and atole at chrismas. where i live in san antonio, watching the spurs on tv is tradition in my house, and watching them live would b even better! its wat we grow up with and wat we are a custom to do.

Answer 2

yeah

Answer 3

I so agree with you. Everytime i watch a red sox game at fenway there are tons of fans there and they never leave they stick around til the game is over. IVE NEVER SEEN fenway emtpy at all. And people on here have the nerve to call us "bandwagoners" when most of us are clearly not.  I do admit some could be bandwagoners.. But Never in my life have i seen fenway empty they never leave a game. But as for the yankees, Ive watched a red sox-yankee game at yankee stadium they leave when the yankees lose. Do you call that being a baseball fan or a yankee fan in generall?

This past 4th when i was watching a game with the sox and yankee stadium i saw more than 1,000 people there and by the 8th inning i saw only maybe 600 there.

Answer 4

Just what is a true fan? The support we give our team is what makes them the best. We were there for them whey were really down and are still there when their having a bad time! Just about any interview with a teammate they acknowledge the support that we show to them. And our Wonderful Wrigley Field makes it very comfortable to show our feelings and the Fun we have. Let them worry about their own fans. Were enjoying our games!

Answer 5

Actually, as a long time Cubs fan who went to his forst game at Wrigley in 1969 (and am still bearing scars from that season) I actually agree somewhat with the assesment that the fans at Wrigley are there for the park.

Until about 1983 or so, you could still go down the day of a game, buy your ticket (they actually didn't sell bleacher seats ot upper deck seats ahead of time in those days -about 10,000 seats went on sale at like 10:a.m. fpr that days game.) and be among 18,000 or so people that were actually there to see a ballgame.

But, the Cubs organization for years sold the experience of Wrigley to people who wern't necessarily Cubs fans. Even before the days of cable, buses would come from Iowa, Indiana, Central Illinois, etc. to experience a game at Wrigley.

And, because we as Cub fans now count among our members many bandwagon fans (although I'm not sure how a team that hasn't won a World Series in almost 100 years gets bandwagon fans, we have a ton of them), and because the Cubs have had at least a little more success th elast couple of years, going to Cubs games has become an "event" more then it is a ballgame. For about the last 10 years or so, I have actually been almost disgusted by the fact that when I go to a game, I am surrounded mostly by people who are there to be seen, to talk on their cell phones and wave to the cameras, or to see how many Bob Chinn's Mai Tais they can polish off before the 7th inning stretch. I don't get why anyone would pay money just to go somewhere to drink - you can buy a six pack for about what you pay for a single beer, and you can stay home and spend al night on the d**n phone for a lot less money. I think it probably also has something to do with the fact that more of the tickets are owned by season ticket holders now, whther they be individuals or corporations, and taking a friend or a client to a game has become almost a status symbol.

Personally, I'd love to go back to the old days when the park was about half fukll, but the folks there were there to see a ballgame. Recently I looked up the box score from the first game I went to, and the attendance was about 18,500. This on a perfect Friday afternoon, after school was out, with the Cubs in first place by about 5 games or so. But, the fans were all there simply to see major league baseball - not as a "social gathering".

Just something we have to live with I guess. But, it has kept me away from the park to some degree - now I pretty much limit it to one game a year, and usually then only if someone gives me a ticket.

So while I disagree that Cubs fans don't know baseball, I will agree that probably 75% of the crowd at Wrigley really aren't true Cubs fans, and mostly know very little about the game.