OCTOBER 28, 2006
ST. LOUIS- I don't even know if that's an appropriate title for this blog. Probably not. but I'm on a 6-hour layover in St. Louis and I'm a bit scatterbrained right now. This isn't even what I really want to blog about. My mind is still clouded with sadness over some events of earlier this week. I'm going to allow my thoughts to settle some more before I really speak on it. Plus I'm trying my best to find the humor in what happened but I can't right now. It's too soon I guess.
Doesn't look like things are going to turn out for the better so I'm hunkering down for the storm clouds of disappointment that I'm seeing on the horizon. None the less I have enough bootleg movies and e-mails to catch up on to keep my mind relaxed for a while.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers last night to win the World Series. The airport terminal is peppered with people wearing their brand new "CARDINALS WORLD CHAMPION T-SHIRTS" and they're all walking around proudly waiting on strangers to walk up and congratulate them as if they actually played in the game.
To make it even more annoying every time one of these Delta Turds comes over the PA to announce stuff they make reference to what the Cardinals did last night as if no one knows.
"ATTENTION PASSENGERS WE'RE NOW READY TO BOARD FOR FLIGHT 384 WITH SERVICE TO TAMPA. DETROIT TIGER FANS WILL BE ALLOWED TO PRE-BOARD, BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU'RE DEPRESSED AND READY TO GET HOME"
"WE WILL BE OFFERING EXTRA PILLOWS TO DETROIT TIGER FANS. WE KNOW YOU NEED TO THEM FOR EXTRA CUSHION, THE CARDINALS BUT QUITE A SPANKING ON YOU LAST NIGHT"
Everyone within an earshot giggles. This might be cute if you heard it once or twice but I'm into hour number 2 of this Airport open-mic comedy and with 4 hours to go, I'm ready to make a bomb threat just to break up the monotony of things.
Wearing this Chicago Cubs knit cap doesn't do much to help my cause either. Being a Cubs fan in St. Louis is like being a Crip at a Bloods' National Convention. But being that just last night I was a black person in Iowa…I was used to the lonely feeling.
One Recurring word seemed to come up when talking to these Cardinal fans here in the airport.. "We".
"WE pulled it out this year"
"WE won it all this year!!"
"Man If WE get all the guys back man maybe WE can repeat"
What the hell is it with sports fans and the word 'WE'? It's not 'WE' it's THEY'. There's nothing wrong with rooting for your favorite team but YOU do not play for them. THEY won the World Series. THEY played 162 regular season games. THEY went out and celebrated. THEY had sex with random groupies all night. THEY got a bonus check from the team owner for $50,000. YOU are flying coach class on Southwest Airlines to Tampa on a $94 Non-refundable Internet Fun Fare. YOU have 6 kids by 4 different women, YOU are a F---g Loser who just happens to like the St. Louis Cardinals.
American's should care about their sports teams about the same way they care about movie stars. For example, I like Will Smith. And minus 'Wild Wild West' and the RIDICULOUS Length of 'Bad Boys 2' I've enjoyed pretty much everything he's put out.
If Will Smith releases a movie and it grosses $73 Million the first week, I'm not running around town going.. 'WE' Grossed $73 million" "WE did good at the Box Office". No, WILL SMITH did good at the box office. It's never 'WE". If WILL SMITH Got addicted to dope and cocaine and went into rehab you'd never hear a Will Smith fan say…. "WE' gotta go to rehab today"
Most sports fans are fair weather anyway. Screaming 'WE won !' when the team wins it all. But the next year when the team is in dead last place they're at a bar going.. "THEY need to get it together."
Which is it buddy? 'We" or 'THEY' ? buying a world
champions shirt off QVC doesn't make you an honorary St. Louis
Cardinal.
While we're on it lets talk about these Championship shirts. If there's a Game 7 in any sport (* NBA, NHL, MLB*) then t-shirt printers make 'WORLD CHAMPION' shirts for both teams. Same goes for the Super Bowl. Now the purpose for this is obvious, as soon as the team wins they're wearing their shirts on the field. The T-shirts of the losing team are then whisked out of the locker room before the team gets in there. The shirts are then shipped off.
Right now there's a truck full of shirts that read 'DETROIT TIGERS WORLD CHAMPIONS 2006" These shirts will never see the light of day in America. They're instead sold overseas in Africa or given to international charities to give to poor people in 3rd world countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Taiwan and Western Mississippi. Somewhere right now a little kid is in the Philippines who thinks that Detroit won the World Series.
If I lived in Iraq I'd hate America too. How can you expect a country to trust you to bring democracy to them country and you won't even tell the truth about who won a f-----g baseball game?
Wood, Jr.