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Bernie Miklasz thinks Cub fans are self-absorbed | Print |  E-mail
Written by Greg Mitchell   
Monday, 12 October 2009 19:57

Last Friday St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz pandered to the paper's demographic and wrote this article mocking the Cubs. A great analysis from TCB can be found here. For those who didn't read it, Bernie compared the 2009 Cardinals to the Cubs in how they were collapsing. Here is a tweet I sent him:

Apparently ruffled by such a comment, Bernie sent this back to me:

My response was this:

Does Bernie have a point? Sure he does, the heart of the article does bash the Cardinals. But when you dig up an event from 1984 like Leon Durham, you can't use the defense that the Cubs aren't being bashed at all. As a newspaper major, I know how bad of the shape the industry is in, and a "Cubs suck" article will sell like hotcakes in St. Louis. However, there are two problems I have with this article and Mr. Miklasz.

First, the Chicago Cubs had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to the Cardinals in the 2009 playoffs. If you want to illustrate how similar it was that the the NL Central champion came out flat and got swept by the NL West champ, then that is fine. Bernie didn't do this: he just poked fun at the Cub organization and the idiotic, media-fueled Billy Goat curse. If your immediate reaction when the Cardinals play like crap is to insult the Cubs, then you have issues and may in fact have some kind of fascination with the Chicago Cubs.

Secondly, don't tell me Cub fans are "typically self-absorbed." Are there self-absorbed Cub fans? You bet. But there are self-absorbed fans of the Pirates, Reds, Brewers, Astros, White Sox, Royals, Indians, Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Orioles, Rays, Tigers, Mariners Angels, Rockies, Dodgers, A's, Twins, Braves, Marlins, Mets, Phillies and Nationals. I know I'm missing teams but every team has them.



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