Name:  DiscDogBob

Age:  56

Hometown:  St. Louis, MO, but now in Taos, NM

Occupation:  Physical Therapist, specializing in Sports and Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Favorite Past Cardinals:  Gibson, Smith, Brock, Flood, McGuire, Coleman, Herr,  too many

Current:  Molina, Rosenthal, Freese,

Favorite MLB team other than Cardinals:  What?????

Other favorite sports teams:  Not really

Hobbies/Interests:  Disc Dogs, Frisbee

Something Unique About you:  I used to be in Sales, then had an Internet company before returning to school

Nice to hear from CTEWheel and DiscDog! Unusual that both these fine gentlemen have no other favorite teams other than the Cards, as almost everybody else cited at least one other.....who was it......I think it was CardinalNationHouston who gave us about 5 other baseball favs. Other than maybe the Orioles, I really don't have another favorite either. When I first started following the game around age 7, I went on a team mailing rampage for about a year. Every Monday I would mail a letter to each team telling them how much I liked them and if I could please be the lucky recipient of some cool free stuff. The Orioles would NEVER fail to disappoint. Every week without fail I would receive a nice plump package stuffed with Oriole decals, a team photo and several individual photos of players like Boog Powell, Jim Palmer and Paul Blair......some of them autographed. It goes without saying that I amassed quite a large sum of duplicates, which came in handy as trade bait for baseball cards. How could Baltimore not be my second favorite team? They either had a myriad of different people handling their mail or one pretty darn forgetful one.
Speaking of baseball fans, I'd like to make a quick observation. Take a look in the mirror. If you can nod your head up and down to the question "have you only had one favorite baseball team your entire life", then you are a genuine and trustworthy individual. Any so called fan that I've ever met who has had two or more favorite teams in their lifetime, almost always prove to be flighty and not really reliable people. Oh and the ones who have had 5+ favorite teams!!!!.....forget about them as they most assuredly will one day have a date with ol' Sparky.....or did the great State of Florida do away with good ol' Sparky? On the other end of the spectrum, fans who have had their favorite team leave their city for another and yet years later still remain loyal to them are by and large super people. If any of you out there still love the AZ Cardinals after being gone from St.Louis for all of these years.......consider yourself not only to be a great sports fan, but also a great person as well.

BTW:  I've been a Cardinal Fan since 63 when I was about 8, the 60's were great years for the Cards.

My mother grew up a baseball fan, her favorite was Marty Marion.

My grandfather became a fan when he was hired by Gussie Busch at the height of the depression.  He worked for AB for 47 years.  He was a pretty terrific athlete playing Golf, BB, Horseshoes, Cork ball, Bowling, pretty much Golf and Bowling until he died.

So all in all I come by it naturally.

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--- DiscDogRob wrote:

BTW:  I've been a Cardinal Fan since 63 when I was about 8, the 60's were great years for the Cards.

My mother grew up a baseball fan, her favorite was Marty Marion.

My grandfather became a fan when he was hired by Gussie Busch at the height of the depression.  He worked for AB for 47 years.  He was a pretty terrific athlete playing Golf, BB, Horseshoes, Cork ball, Bowling, pretty much Golf and Bowling until he died.

So all in all I come by it naturally.

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I submit into evidence DiscDogRob as Exhibit A as to the prototypical great baseball fan. I have this joker down the street from me who is the complete opposite. I kid you not, the guy sports only recent baseball and football caps atop his head who have been crowned champions......and has the gall to call himself a fan. I just saw him at the convenience store the other day wearing a Giants baseball hat after wearing his football Giants cap all summer. It absolutely turned my stomach last winter seeing him prance around in our Cards cap.......hey I just looked outside and it's snowing like crazy.

Pugs, I liked your post and it brought up a memory for me of my Dad.

He grew up in the coal mining area of Pennsylvania/West Virginia area and was
a diehard Pittsburgh fan as a kid and teenager.  After WW2 he ended up in Missouri and he gradually switched his allegiance to the Cards.  It didn't hurt that Stan the Man was from the same general area and about the same age and so he became a big Musial fan and for 65+ years he was a faithfulCardinal fan listening to the games on KMOX.  He still would always want to know how the Pirates did and followed them in the standings.  When the Cards played Pittsburgh it was always a little more intense for him but he always pulled for the Birds. Over time I believe he did make the total conversion to the Cardinal Nation and eventually the Pirates were just another team.  He passed away in February but I was so glad he got to see one more Cards World Series championship.

Thanks to my Dad I have always been a Redbirds fan but must admit that when I was little I admired the (1960's)Yankees because they were so good.  They kicked butt and took names. I always thought Mickey Mantle should of been in a Cardinal uniform.  When the Cards beat them in the 64 Series that was the greatest thing imaginable.  That was the end of the Yankee dominance for a long time.

pugsleyaddams wrote: Nice to hear from CTEWheel and DiscDog! Unusual that both these fine gentlemen have no other favorite teams other than the Cards, as almost everybody else cited at least one other.....who was it......I think it was CardinalNationHouston who gave us about 5 other baseball favs. Other than maybe the Orioles, I really don't have another favorite either. When I first started following the game around age 7, I went on a team mailing rampage for about a year. Every Monday I would mail a letter to each team telling them how much I liked them and if I could please be the lucky recipient of some cool free stuff. The Orioles would NEVER fail to disappoint. Every week without fail I would receive a nice plump package stuffed with Oriole decals, a team photo and several individual photos of players like Boog Powell, Jim Palmer and Paul Blair......some of them autographed. It goes without saying that I amassed quite a large sum of duplicates, which came in handy as trade bait for baseball cards. How could Baltimore not be my second favorite team? They either had a myriad of different people handling their mail or one pretty darn forgetful one.
Speaking of baseball fans, I'd like to make a quick observation. Take a look in the mirror. If you can nod your head up and down to the question "have you only had one favorite baseball team your entire life", then you are a genuine and trustworthy individual. Any so called fan that I've ever met who has had two or more favorite teams in their lifetime, almost always prove to be flighty and not really reliable people. Oh and the ones who have had 5+ favorite teams!!!!.....forget about them as they most assuredly will one day have a date with ol' Sparky.....or did the great State of Florida do away with good ol' Sparky? On the other end of the spectrum, fans who have had their favorite team leave their city for another and yet years later still remain loyal to them are by and large super people. If any of you out there still love the AZ Cardinals after being gone from St.Louis for all of these years.......consider yourself not only to be a great sports fan, but also a great person as well.

blingboy wrote:

Something Unique About you:  Have attended over 1000 Cardinal games

Wow! I have been to 10. I wish I could have been to more. Bling has me turning green with envy!

I have listened to 1000s on the radio, when it was dark, and the AM skipped just right..LOL

My brother took my now 80 year old mother to game 6 of the World Series last year, she said it was fun, but she liked her champions from the 40's and Marty Marion and Stan Musiel also.

She also went to the Cards - Brown Streetcar Series as a girl

Name: Brian

Age:  Somewhere in the neighborhood of 64.2

Hometown: St Louis in my dreams, Northfield MN in reality

Occupation:  retired from the computer biz

Favorite Current Cardinal(s):  Waino, Craig, Yadi, & The Young Guns.

Favorite All-time Cardinal(s): Gibson, Pujols, Musial.

Favorite Cardinal Memory:  Gibson 3 complete game wins in '67 WS, Gibson 1.12 era 28 CG in 1968, Coleman stealing 3rd again, a Yadi pickoff with 2 outs in the 9th (who would even try that?), McGuire grand slam to win, Pujols grand slam to win, Pujols flat-out diving to catch a ball (really? 6'3" 230 lbs, really?),1963 All-Star infield of White-Javier-Groat-Boyer, Edmonds game-ending back to the infield catch, Flood all-out diving catch to end the game, Hrbowski wierd-ass hopping around before striking out the side, Bruce Sutter and the untouchable sinker in 1984, Freese on the "final" strike(s), Ozzie and oh so many plays, Roger Maris class act in RF, Orlando Cepeda HR to win it again and again, Carpenter vs Holliday NLCS 2011, Waino curve vs Beltran, 70 HRs in 1998, Harry Caray's exciting (and somewhat accurate) broadcasts on KMOX.  I could go on, and on, and on.

Favorite MLB team(s) other than the Cardinals:
Rangers (living in TX), and Royals (lived in KC)


Other favorite sports teams:  Really can't think of any.


Hobbies/Interests:
Baseball in-season, baseball off-season, baseball spring training, golf,  watching baseball on TV, watching baseball in person, reading about baseball.

Something unique about you that we wouldn't guess based on your posts:  "confess to nothing", that's my motto.

There generally are exceptions to every rule and that is certainly the case with CFlood's father switching favorite teams as a young man. It's quite obvious that there was not a flakish bone in his body. Growing up in the Pennsylvania/W.Virginia area says it all as far as toughness goes and being a Redbird fan for 65 years is a pretty neat thing. CFlood's dad gets a free pass as far as switching teams, but CFlood himself warrants keeping an eye on as he nearly succumbed to switching allegiance to the Yanks during the early 60's.......you never know, maybe if those Giants repeat in 2013, CFlood could be swayed???

Some great Cardinal memories, DuckSnort!

pugsleyaddams wrote: Some great Cardinal memories, DuckSnort!

Wow! Northfield Minnesota. That should get some of our history buffs in "The House" thinking Ducksnort. Any relation to famed poster Duckymedwick? I love this thread and threads like these. Really cool to read the stories and the reasons behind the fandom. Seems like Cards fans are not random at all but seem to have a past thread to todays team. Uncanny!

I used to post here a lot, but now I only check in every week or so because i don't have internet access at home. Still my favorite cardinals site.

mrperkins wrote: I used to post here a lot, but now I only check in every week or so because i don't have internet access at home. Still my favorite cardinals site.

Howdy, MrP!!! I think I speak for many in saying that you've been dearly missed. It is our sincere hope that your internet access issue changes so you can hop back on board at your old clip.

mrperkins wrote: I used to post here a lot, but now I only check in every week or so because i don't have internet access at home. Still my favorite cardinals site.

Been around here a few years Mr.Perkins huh? Nice to hear from you again. Is that "The Captain Lou Albano" in your avatar?

Been around here a few years Mr.Perkins huh? Nice to hear from you again. Is that "The Captain Lou Albano" in your avatar?

Its Carl from the adult swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The show was pretty funny years ago, I dont think they even make it any more.