The Weekender: An Alternative to March Madness and the Insanity of Cub Fans

By: justinsemerad

For many American sports fans march is the pinnacle of college sports. In college basketball, unlike football, the small and mid-major colleges have an equal shot at greatness. Unlike football there is no question who is the champ at the end of the month. But while I enjoy the spectacle that is March Madness more attention should be paid to the Division I Wrestling Finals taking place in St. Louis this weekend. All student-athletes have to make sacrifices to achieve at the Division I level but I’m not sure if there is sport where personal sacrifice is more in grained into the athletes than wrestling. It is unfortunate that when most Americans picture wrestling they see a bunch of roided up actors pretending to hit each other. 

Being a wrestling coach and having a young son who is involved with youth wrestling does make me biased but none the less if you want to find great story lines and watch fantastic student athletes, amatuer wrestling is a wonderful product.  In a later post I will go more in depth about my personal feelings in regards to wrestling and some of the obstacles it faces.

Cub Fans

Had this recent dialog with an idiot Cubs fan who also happens to be a good friend of mine and it inspired some thoughts:

Digger(idiot Cubs fan): I think that selection Sunday should be a national holiday.

Me: That’s because you are a Cubs fan and as we all know Cub fans don’t actually need to watch something entertaining to be entertained. For example the last 100 years of Cub baseball. And yes I am saying selection Sunday is like watching the Cubs play. (I just don’t get that excited about waiting to see if Southwest Apple Turd State gets into the dance over an 8th place ACC team)

Digger: If you spent last year watching the Cards, how are you qualified to comment on entertaining? They were entertaining for 7 innings. They were entertaining until the all-star break. Or were you referring to LaRussa getting drunked up and landing a DUI during spring training last year? Now that’s entertaining! (How Dare You!)

I love Cub fans; Absolutely no memory or better yet very selective memories.  ”Hey Ryne Sandberg is the greatest 2nd basemen ever!” Awesome now shut up so I can watch highlights of Tommy Herr actually playing in October.

In all honesty I am secretly jealous of Cub fans. I wish I could enjoy my team whether they had a 20 game first place lead or were out of it by July. I don’t have it in me. I’m loyal to my team, but have I enjoyed my self the past two years since winning our 10th World Series? Absolutely not.

Changes in the Wind

With all that said the power in the Central division is shifting. Us Cardinal fans have been lucky that the Tribune Company just saw the Cubbies as a cash cow and weren’t too worried about wins and losses. But now that they are trying to sell the team off they have began to improve the product on the field. No doubt if the new ownership uses the asset available to them they can out spend any club in the Central.

But I now hold my glass of frosty Budweiser  to all Cub fans in hopes to a return to a simpler time and safer time, when we could count on Uncle Sam, Apple Pie and the Cubs sucking.

Have a Great Weekend.

PS I know that Budweiser is owned by some Northern European company so keep your lame viking jokes to yourself Chicago.

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Justin Semerad is a sad little man who uses fantasy football to find some relevance in his life. Consequently has found some success and hope to spread his knowledge with fellow FFB'ers.

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  1. first of all, if you went to Southwest Apple Turd State (which you may have), you’d be interested to know where and when they play. My Missouri Tigers landed a 3 seed in the west and rolled Cornell in round 1 today. Next, look at the positive, I’m trying to get you teachers another holiday or is 20 a year not enough for you (most of the world gets 6). Finally, Sanberg is the greatest 2nd baseman of all time and we’ll see who’s playing THIS October! This is our year! signed, idiot cub fan.

    Comment by digger on March 20, 2009

  2. 1. You know GD well that i didn’t go to SW Turd State…I went to SIUE, the place where Turd State dropouts go to feel smart.

    2. 20 days! No less than 35 otherwise I’m going to do something real degrading like work overnights at wholesale warehouse.

    3. If you Love Sandberg so much the least you could do is spell his name right.

    4. Do we count a 4 game sweep in the first round (again) as playing in October?

    Comment by justinsemerad on March 20, 2009

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