Fair enough, there hasn’t been a comparable moment since (though I distinctly remember some lady in a Blackhawks jersey screaming with hatred at David Backes as he was brutally injured last year) but you can’t deny that the Steve Batman incident was a stain on the Cubs fandom for years. How many times has a baseball…

1. You’re incorrect about the date, unless the Dodgers did it again, which is really bordering on epic levels of douchebaggery.

Because the levels of anger and hatred were comparable? All it took was a foul ball to make Chicago’s population treat Steve Bartman like an errant black man.

Twitter was a no go, because there was really no way to filter out the global noise (and there was a LOT of it) and focus just on what Orioles fans said. Did look at the Orioles official website for fan comments on old articles, and did find some commentary linking the protests to availability of public…

The original article is RE: a former baseball player ripping on another athlete for supposedly doing something unseemly, which is typically the kind of shit you hear conservatives spouting off. It’s kind of a “hey you kids, get off my lawn!” kind of reaction.

Autocorrect fucked me there, and I was running out of time to finish typing and post. Meant to say John Elway. D’oh.

Re: the fans:

You know Cardinal hatred has reached its ridiculous fever pitch when idiots start comparing the team and its fans to Nazis.

All is forgiven, man. To be sure, there are many Cardinals fans I would punch in the nads myself if I got the chance, especially the racist ones. Also, while I enjoyed watching Jason Heyward play and was disappointed when he took his stellar defense to Chicago, I wouldn’t have dreamed of sending him hate mail over the…

Yeah, I get the hassling. I’ll do it to Dodgers fans sometimes. But Deadspin borders on obsession over this shit. Not surprising, considering the parent company, but still.

We both used facts, actually. Well, maybe it could be argued how good the 2011 Rangers were, and how close each playoff series was, but the main difference between his post and my reply is the time period our facts reflect.

Because the Cardinals, out of all the teams in the MLB, must be focused on with all of your impotent fury because....why? Because of a narrative that was sold by major media a few years ago in an attempt to make the Dodgers look like the team to root for? Because of a fan stereotype that’s mostly been perpetuated by…

I didn’t realize that making fun of people for the jobs they hold was suddenly cool again. Thanks for letting me know!

Short memory you seem to have. 5 years ago, the Cardinals were 10 1/2 games out of first place and were trailing in the wild card race... In September. They went on to get the wild card, beat the Phillies in a close series, beat the shit out of the Brewers in a not as close series, and won the World Series against one…

And Deadspin’s “Cardinals losing” series keeps losing views. Last week’s article is at a little over 11k views. This one’s barely cracked 7k so far. I wonder if it’ll gain four thousand views over the next week in order to keep pace with last week’s article? Nah, probably not.

Man, it’s gotta be killing you guys. It’ll be at least 6 days since this article went up before the Cardinals will possibly lose again. (And they’re playing the Astros, who aren’t very good).

Give the Cubs the victory in the NLCS last year, which would potentially result in them fulfilling Back to the Future’s prophecy by winning the WS. Also, I would love to see the party that breaks out in Chicago when they win the WS.

You really think the Cardinals are going to go 28-92 for the rest of the season?

Ironic, since the Cardinals completely fucked the Angels in this series.

I don’t care if he’s a good pitcher. I’m so glad the Cardinals didn’t extend this asshole’s contract.