NLDS Rooting interest poll: Cubs-Dodgers

[metirish]

It's just weird hearing Stockton calling baseball games , I associate him with the Giants. With all the pbp guys sitting out this month I don't know why they couldn't get one.

[stevejrogers]

FYI. Ex-Mets on both active squads and coaching staffs

Cubs: None
Dodgers: Joe Torre, Jeff Kent, Chan Ho Park

[G-Fafif]

I voted for the Cubs before I'm voting against them. I can't help it. No matter how I try to give them their moment, no matter how big I try to be about the true-blue fans who deserve better (despite the plenty who don't), it always defaults to 1969 in my head and I can't do anything but wish ill on them. I don't like the Dodgers but I'm quite thrilled the Cubs are down 2-0.

Then again the Mets have held two-game leads and blown them so I wouldn't write anybody who actually made the playoffs off just yet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

For me it's not about 1969 with the Cubs, but 1984.

[Fman99]

I miss the Cubs-Mets and Pirates-Mets rivalries that disappeared with the realignment of the divisions. So I still hate the dumb Cubs.

[Guest themetfairy]

The Cubs fans in Wrigleyville were incredibly nice to my son on his birthday. I'm still going to pull for them.

[Willets Point]

themetfairy wrote: The Cubs fans in Wrigleyville were incredibly nice to my son on his birthday. I'm still going to pull for them.

The Cubs fans in Wrigley men's room are far less friendly. Threatening even.

[Guest themetfairy]

Nobody threatened MK. And he did, indeed, use the Wrigley restrooms.

But it sounds like you've got quite a story....

[Willets Point]

themetfairy wrote: But it sounds like you've got quite a story....

Surely I've told you about the swirly in the trough?

[Guest themetfairy]

I didn't recall the story. It sounds like there was at least one decent Cubs fan around.

And don't call me Shirley!

[Guest Mendoza Line]

Cubs got eliminated before I had the chance to root for them...

I lived in the Chicago area for ten years and never got any grief from the fans. There are plenty of ex-New Yorkers in Chicago, so Cub fans are used to Met fans showing up at Wrigley.

The Cubs are an alternate-universe Yankees. They've completely taken over the city, but ownership stays out of the spotlight and doesn't seem to care either way if they win or lose. And the fans take it as a given that the Cubs aren't going to be playing deep into the postseason.