I went to all three games in this series, because that’s just kind of what I do when the Cubs are in Houston. Usually, we aren’t in first place.. this time was different.

By different, I mean that Cubs fans outnumbered the Astros fans in their home ballpark. They (we) made a mini Wrigleyville out of Union Station and cheered like crazy people no matter what the score was. I’m told that you could hear us chanting “let’s go Cubbies” and “Fukudome” on TV. That makes me so happy, you have no idea. There were a few dbag Astros fans on Saturday night who harrassed a few of us for being Cubs fans, especially around the fourth inning. This one guy who kept bragging about sneaking in (how is that possible?) was being a complete tool and telling me/my group to quit cheering because the Cubs will always be losers. I was just like.. do you have any idea how dumb you sound? gah, ignorant bandwagon fans.

So we dropped 2 out of 3, eh. No big deal. I chalk it up to All-Star Break, and we certainly looked like we broke that slump today. We sufficiently smoked Backe (who looked so violently angry that it kind of freaked me out) and shut up quite a few naysayers. As of right now, the Cardinals are tied and the Brewers are up 2-0 (still early.) Hopefully our lead is going to increase, I hate this 2.5 games nonsense.

I am from Houston. I grew up going to the Dome, watching Glenn Davis,
Alan Ashby, Billy Hatcher, Terry Puhl.. and later Jeff Bagwell and
Craig Biggio. These guys shaped my life, until I hit the age of seven.
When I was in first grade, I came home and watched afternoon baseball
on WGN. And I was hooked. I was now a Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, and Cubs fan for life.

Now,
pushing twenty years later, I’ve grown to hate the entire city of
Houston – including the Astros. Houston doesn’t value anything of its
culture or history, they just tear it down and forget about it. The
people here are fickle and ridiculous; “Astros fans” are mainly
bandwagoners in it for Free Food Thursday and a change to bag a
ballplayer. The Astros of my youth valued diversity, teamwork, and a
community spirit. Lance Berkman aside, all of that disappeared with the
retirement of Biggio last year. The Astros trade any good player they
get their hands on (Beltran, Taveras, Scott, Burke, etc etc etc..) for
“prospects” that never pan out. This is why I cannot stand them. The
way that the “fans” basically ran Brad Lidge out of town bothers the
crap out of me, as well.

The Cubs are not saints. We’ve run
pitchers into the ground on Dusty Baker’s watch, we’ve ruined a man’s
life for trying to catch a foul ball, and we’re perpetual underdogs.
All of that’s fine. We play in a fantastic old stadium, we sell out
EVERY home game, we have a loyal following in every city we travel to
(on many, many occasions there have been more Cubs fans than Astros
fans at the Juicebox..) and we’re a community of baseball lovers, not
bandwagon fans. We sneer at pink jerseys and revel in our history. We
hit up Harry Caray’s after the game and perpetually say, “it’s only
April.. it’s only September.. we can come back.. oh there’s always next
year” rather than giving up on our team.

so, to my alleged
“friend” who’s enjoying telling me how wonderful the Astros on and how
the Cubs suck and will never hang on to their first place lead? at
least we have class.