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IlliniAmy wrote:

pioneer98 wrote:Most Brewers fans are fine, but I have had idiots come up to me and start screaming at me just for wearing a Cardinals jersey at Miller Park. This was at a game in 2009, way before Nyjer or really anything else. I was hanging with my friends wearing all their Brewers gear. They were embarrassed.

That sucks. I've been to Miller Park twice and was treated great both times. On the other hand, I've been to Cincinnati twice and while the first time was fine, the second time (last August), was horrible. At both the stadium and the hotel, I was cursed at and told I didn't belong. It was very unsettling because I hadn't done anything to provoke such nonsense except wear a Cardinal shirt.

I've been going to Reds games for many years, and I'm pretty much treated like [expletive] every time.

The other thing to keep in mind is that Brewer fans are almost universally football fans first, baseball fans second or third or fourth depending on how they feel about hockey or curling.

As such, they have football fan mentalities.

pioneer98 wrote:

IlliniAmy wrote:

pioneer98 wrote:Most Brewers fans are fine, but I have had idiots come up to me and start screaming at me just for wearing a Cardinals jersey at Miller Park. This was at a game in 2009, way before Nyjer or really anything else. I was hanging with my friends wearing all their Brewers gear. They were embarrassed.

That sucks. I've been to Miller Park twice and was treated great both times. On the other hand, I've been to Cincinnati twice and while the first time was fine, the second time (last August), was horrible. At both the stadium and the hotel, I was cursed at and told I didn't belong. It was very unsettling because I hadn't done anything to provoke such nonsense except wear a Cardinal shirt.

I've been there many other times and been fine, too. I think their 2008 Wild Card experience raised expectations a bit up there and raised the stakes a bit. This year will only raise them even more.

Been to Miller once, and had the screaming at me (and my 13 year old son at the time with me - which is when drunk fools really piss me off) issues. Mine was 2008. Single worst total experience I have ever had at a ballgame in my life. I honestly didn't care one way or another about the Brewers until that day. It took exactly one day for the Brewers to go from neutral background noise to passing up the Cubs in my least liked teams list.

Yeah, screaming at kids is the least classy thing/worst act anyone can do. I mean, really? Coming from someone who half the time doesn't remember the last inning of a game due to inebriation, is it really that tough to not mess with people who have kids and/or swear/act beligerent when they are in earshot. I mean. Come the [expletive] on.

I remember when I was 12 having Reds fans swearing at me and taunting me. Last time I went to a game same thing happened, and somebody kept pelting me with jelly beans all game long. Cincinnati is a bunch of white trash though. I grew up there. I'm allowed to call it white trash.

I like Brewers fans. Every time I've been to a game in Milwaukee they've always been friendly and fun to be around. Truthfully the only time I've cringed at a game is when a fellow Cards fan was a smug condescending jerk towards them for no good reason.

I was surprised by my experience. In general Wisconsin-ites are the most polite and pleasant people I know. Maybe just a bad day or a bad section (although they were the most expensive seats 2 rows from the field - not usually where you find the rif-raf).

Jeffrey Dahmer was a Brewer fan.

/small sample size

Freed Roger wrote:Jeffrey Dahmer was a Brewer fan.

/small sample size

Lmao

Freed Roger wrote:

Cox@2nd wrote:

IMADreamer wrote:I'm sorry this touchy feely stuff doesn't do it for me. It's nice to play nice but the fact is everytime I see one of your douchebags do that damn monsters inc thing I want to punch a kitten. I hate your team and I hate you.

This, for miles and miles. Lose the showboating, and even though you haven't very often, act like you've been there.

lighten up -if they have enough energy, talent, and focus to be idiots and still play good baseball then more power to them. If Cards and Larussa let their nonsense get in their heads and affect how they play - which I doubt - then Cards are pretty lame. The best way to beat them is to beat them.

As for the fan angst thing, well, I want the cards to whip them just as much, even if they and their fans* were all humble choir boys.

*as for my Brewer fan stereotype - they don't have to deep baseball roots Cardinal fans have. Brewers are typically just a fun way to enjoy summer drink beer and pass time waiting for the Packers and Badgers. Not saying Brewer fans don't know baseball or want to win, but it is definitely not a baseball town first. If a regular Packer game ran at same time as a playoff Brewer game -you can bet the Packers would win the ratings. Up until this year, a typical game in Miller Park against Cubs or Cards would have as many opposing fans as Brewer fans.

I think the bolded part is mostly true.
And it pisses me off to no end.

Screw the Packers.

P.S. There's never been more Cardinals fans at Miller Park than Brewer fans. Plenty of them, but not like Cubs games.