What Needs to Be Said: Marty Brennaman and Ozzie Guillen
After Cubs fans throw an obnoxious amount of baseballs on the field in April versus the Reds Brennaman, the Reds’ radio hall of fame announcer, responds…
TRANSCRIPT: “This is what makes you want to see this Chicago Cubs team lose. Among all baseball fans — I can’t attest to the Yankees and Red Sox because we don’t see them with any degree of regularity unless it’s interleague play — but far and away the most obnoxious fans in baseball in this league are those who follow this team right here. Throwing 15 or 18 balls on the field, there’s absolutely no excuse for that and that is so typical of Chicago Cub fans. It’s unbelievable.”
“Throwing the ball back, that’s great, that’s a Chicago Cub tradition that other teams have picked up on, and that’s fine.”
“It’s ridiculous, it really is … You simply root against them. I’ve said all winter, people talk about this team winning the division, and my comment is they won’t win it because at the end of the day, they’re still the Chicago Cubs and they will figure out a way to screw this whole thing up.
Brantley: “And then they’ll have no one to boo but themselves.
Brennaman: “Well, they never blame themselves.”
Brantley: “They’ll blame that old billy goat.”
Brennaman: “Yep.”
Ozzie Guillien: Chicago Hero
“The Cubs haven’t won in [100] years, and they’re the [bleeping] best. [Bleep] it, we’re good. [Bleep] everybody. We’re horse[bleep], and we’re going to be horse[bleep] the rest of our lives, no matter how many World Series we win.”
“We have the worst owner (Jerry Reinsdorf). The guy’s got seven [bleeping] rings, and he’s the [bleeping] horse[bleep] owner.” –Ozzie
Thank you Marty and Ozzie! I am starting a new “Ozzie Guillen: Chicago Hero” category in celebration of this man. Ozzie Guillen reflects my frustration towards Chicago even stronger than the poetic prose of Hemingway. These two seemingly unrelated curse outs are related to the obnoxious people I write about. Marty and Ozzie would put their reputations on the line just to say it–this is something that definitely needs to be said.
“Get the [Bleep] off my field.” -Ozzie
Note: The image from my homepage of the skyline is taken from the top of U.S. Cellular Field at the same game at the end of the 2006 season Vs. Seattle, although I distorted it heavily.
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