Jonathan Papelbon

[ghostrunner]

I thought it was pretty funny to be honest. He was just having a good time celebrating.

I bet this ruffled some feathers last season.

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Perfect example. I would've hated that as a Mets fan. Loved it as a Cards fan. I sleep at night.

[JL21]

Not you. Not trying to pick a fight, but to be blunt I'm talking about Steve here. Coming on this board and chiding us while dropping terms like "Captain Intangibles" (re: Jeter) rubs me the wrong way. If your team is going to spend a bunch of money, and start winning and getting a lot of attention, you need to be able to take a punch. I can only hope to be in that situation. If Warren Buffet buys the team tomorrow and our payroll goes up by 70 million, I'm not going to blame an Astros fan one bit for hating our guts.

And yes, sports fandom is irrational. That seems completely fine to me. Being hypocritical about it isn't a character flaw in my book. The definition of what is hypocritical is even irrational, i.e. rooting for Edgar, then rooting against him.

Oh, I know. Frankly, I think a lot of this discussion has been pretty good. I certainly haven't taken any offense to anything you, or many others, have said.

However, let's try to keep it from being personal with other posters (that applies to all of youse out there at GRB). Jonathan Papelbon would want it that way.

[JL21]

This thead gave me a fun idea for Social.

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... =4&t=23123

[greenback44]

Think of Jim Edmonds' celebration of his HR against the Astros in '04. As Cards fans, we love it. As the fan of any other team, we'd want to punch him in the face if we ever met him.

The Edmonds celebration upset people?

[Popeye_Card]

Think of Jim Edmonds' celebration of his HR against the Astros in '04. As Cards fans, we love it. As the fan of any other team, we'd want to punch him in the face if we ever met him.

The Edmonds celebration upset people?

OK, maybe I exagerrated about punching him in the face. But I'm sure fans from other teams were annoyed by it--particularly Houston fans--much like people are apparently annoyed by Paplebon's dancing*.

* I'm not really annoyed by it. I think it's kinda funny.

--P--

[greenback44]

Shoot. I've been trying to figure out why Cubs fans hate Edmonds so much, and I thought for a second I had something.

Astros fans couldn't get too upset, seeing as Kent did a little helmet-flip thing about two days before.

[Dillagii]

Think of Jim Edmonds' celebration of his HR against the Astros in '04. As Cards fans, we love it. As the fan of any other team, we'd want to punch him in the face if we ever met him.

The Edmonds celebration upset people?

OK, maybe I exagerrated about punching him in the face. But I'm sure fans from other teams were annoyed by it--particularly Houston fans--much like people are apparently annoyed by Paplebon's dancing*.

* I'm not really annoyed by it. I think it's kinda funny.

--P--

Wont each and every player in every team do a HR trot like that when they hit a walk-off HR? Heck, the players do that after hitting a walk-off HR in a meaningless game and imagine this is a NLCS game 6.

I am not that annoyed by Papelbon's dance. I thought it was kind of funny and stupid.

[ghostrunner]

Not you. Not trying to pick a fight, but to be blunt I'm talking about Steve here. Coming on this board and chiding us while dropping terms like "Captain Intangibles" (re: Jeter) rubs me the wrong way. If your team is going to spend a bunch of money, and start winning and getting a lot of attention, you need to be able to take a punch. I can only hope to be in that situation. If Warren Buffet buys the team tomorrow and our payroll goes up by 70 million, I'm not going to blame an Astros fan one bit for hating our guts.

And yes, sports fandom is irrational. That seems completely fine to me. Being hypocritical about it isn't a character flaw in my book. The definition of what is hypocritical is even irrational, i.e. rooting for Edgar, then rooting against him.

Oh, I know. Frankly, I think a lot of this discussion has been pretty good. I certainly haven't taken any offense to anything you, or many others, have said.

However, let's try to keep it from being personal with other posters (that applies to all of youse out there at GRB). Jonathan Papelbon would want it that way.

Yeah, I didn't mean to make it seem personal. Just explaining where I'm coming from. I hope we can discuss this stuff rationally, even if our fandom isn't.

[cardinalkarp]

I thought it was pretty funny to be honest. He was just having a good time celebrating.

I bet this ruffled some feathers last season.

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Perfect example. I would've hated that as a Mets fan. Loved it as a Cards fan. I sleep at night.

Doing this in the locker room as opposed to on the field is a little different.

[JL21]

Doing this in the locker room as opposed to on the field is a little different.

So sharing in the celebration with the fans is a bad thing?