So, I’m going to mention this now, well in advance. This year, 2006, I’m going to root for the Cardinals. Crazy, I know…but I don’t make this decision lightly… While I’ve always been a KC Royals fan (…if you even count me as a “baseball fan” in the first place…), they haven’t had a winning season in what seems like 20 years…that, and I’m living in St. Louis now, so I should root, root, root for the home team. Finally, I’ve kinda rooted against them in the past two playoff bouts (since Truman is 80% St. Louis kids, so I have to go against the grain…), but I kinda felt bad last time since the Cards weren’t really playing at their best and, practically, gave up the playoffs this year.
I mention this now because I generally hate it when people are “fairweather fans.” For example, there were lots of Bulls fans 10 years ago…are there any anymore? Nope. I saw a lot of Rams fans running around a few years back…but now that they aren’t doing so well, I don’t see as many jackets as I used to. Granted, some people have “always been a Cardinals fan,” but not that many people… I figure that now that they’ve lost two playoff bids and many of their key players have been traded, etc., I can safely begin to support them without becoming a “fairweather fan”…perhaps…
Therefore, I hereby make it public knowledge that I will support the St. Louis Cardinals in their next season, be it successful or not. If I’m going to live here for 5 years, I guess I’d better get used to having a hometown team.
P.S. Busch Stadium was only 40 years old. I don’t understand the hoopla behind selling bits of it off to fans… If you know nothing about this, they’ve torn down the old stadium to make room for the new one…but they sold off things like seats, dirt and urinals from the old stadium for hundreds of $$$ to idiots. I don’t understand this need to retain memories of a 40-year-old stadium. I mean, if it were Wrigley Field or something, I’d understand…but…this isn’t Wrigley Field…