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Living in central California over the last 5 seasons. What a f'ing nightmare.
1 playoff series win in the last 20 years despite making the playoffs many times.
The constant trades that make it hard to root for people since almost everybody has been on the team for fewer than 3 years.
The crappy stadium that wouldn't be quite as crappy if the Raiders hadn't ruined it. But it'd still be LITERALLY crappy because of the sewage back-ups.
Having another team so close that spends more money and has a nice stadium and gets all of the local media coverage and way more fans.
And finally, the most famous person on the team by far is the GENERAL MANAGER.
This Friedman/Maddon business got me thinking....what's the hardest part of rooting for your team? I'm sure we can guess the answer for Cubs fans, but for the Mets and my fan life id say it was the early/mid 90s when there were incidents with bleach, and firecrackers and Bobby Bo's contract. What say you?
Atwater.What part? I'm in Modesto
Ryan Braun. He makes everything too complicated. Root? Defend? Critique? Criticize? Hate? He makes me have to do all of those.
Top 10 Worst Things about being a Cub Fan (David Letterman Style):
7) Bad patch pieces in our team's baseball cards