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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
Bingo. This has little to nothing to do with success. It has to do with the unofficial arbiters of unwritten rules. I mean who hated the Blue Jays in the early 90s? or, heck, even the Braves in the 90s. Braves got a bunch of shit this year for doing what St. Louis has been doing for a decade+.
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Cardinals hate has little to do with any success they've had. St. Louis fans = Boston fans for the most part, but add in the "greatest fans in baseball" BS, the Cardinals take the top spot. From a personnel perspective, you have recent guys like Chris Carpenter, Molina and LaRussa who are d-bags, but I go back to the 80's when you had Whitey Herzog and hateable guys like Joaquin Andujar, Jack Clark and Ozzie Smith. I've always thought it so hypocritical of Cardinals fans preaching "we respect the game" when they all idolized Ozzie when he was the second biggest showboat in baseball (Rickey Henderson will always be #1).