The 10 best things about being a D’Backs fan

Here's the list I put together - with a lot of help from you guys! - for Big League Stew on Yahoo! Let the slating begin...

3 months ago Jim McLennan 28 comments 0 recs |

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Number 11) the fans themselves. While attendance has dragged a bit, that is changing rapidly. D’Backs fans are a rather diverse bunch, and while more ‘laid back’ than in other locales, they bring it all to the game and stay until after the final pitch.

Changing planes in Acapulco, we are flying down to Rio...

by NASCARbernet on Feb 21, 2012 5:06 PM EST reply actions

Well thanks NASCAR!

To be honest, I actually have never left a game early, no matter the score, much to my family’s chagrin

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill

by imstillhungry95 on Feb 21, 2012 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

You never leave early

If I left games early just because we were getting routed, I never would have seen Mark Grace pitch…

"Anytime you can sign an oft-injured guy to fill a hole that wasn't there YOU MAKE THAT DEAL."
-Clefo

by kishi on Feb 21, 2012 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

Oh yeah

And I am proud to say that I have been to Dodger Stadium to see games on a few occasions and I haven’t ONCE left early. I even got there on time. That’s how they knew I wasn’t from around there.

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by Clefo on Feb 21, 2012 9:51 PM EST up reply actions

I have been late to Dodger stadium before.

I was with some Dodger fans, who decided to go to a bar prior to the game, then didnt have the tickets yet, waiting 3 innings at will-call. Then we had tickets to ghetto-ville (outfield bleachers). Worst game experience I ever attended. And to top it off, they wanted to leave early to go back to, guess where.

by Bcawz on Feb 21, 2012 11:19 PM EST up reply actions

I didn't leave early at the one Dodger game I went to.

Of course, I was 8 and my father had taken me. He was just enjoying being at the game instead of at work, so he was quite happy to stay the entire time.

by SongBird on Feb 22, 2012 12:39 AM EST up reply actions

I was there too.

Surprisingly, the Dodger fans left early that night.

by Bcawz on Feb 21, 2012 11:17 PM EST up reply actions

Great article everyone

I think we did a pretty good job. Kudos to Jim for the writing part, too

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill

by imstillhungry95 on Feb 21, 2012 5:23 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Kudos to Mr. Jim for.....

Letting us have input on this. Sometimes he really is a good guy. I was sad to see the wave wasn’t on there but my boy coming it at 8th made up for it. God I cant wait for the season to start. Life without D’Backs baseball sucks.

by AzDbackfanInDc on Feb 21, 2012 7:19 PM EST reply actions

From the comments

Nice of you to pop in ’Hacks…

Ha ha, that made me laugh.

by Bcawz on Feb 21, 2012 7:19 PM EST reply actions

I especially liked

NASCAR’s response of if you don’t like it, you can always be a Dodger fan

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill

by imstillhungry95 on Feb 21, 2012 8:53 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, pretty funny.

by Bcawz on Feb 21, 2012 11:19 PM EST up reply actions

Someone had to maintain

The high standard of discourse we associate with Yahoo! comments…

"There's one rule by which I generally run my life:
What would Mothra do?"

by Jim McLennan on Feb 22, 2012 10:18 AM EST up reply actions

Its a heavy and challenging responsibility

Changing planes in Acapulco, we are flying down to Rio...

by NASCARbernet on Feb 22, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions

If that's what you were going for

you needed to mention Chris Chase a few times

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill

by imstillhungry95 on Feb 22, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions

It's a more open forum

than here…that’s for sure. Which is why I chose to share and develop some thoughts there. And it’s got a larger readership and reputation, which I imagine is one reason why you spent a fair amount of time and effort to hone an essay for publication there.

Reporters asked the Phillies' skipper how his pitcher had managed to injure himself in his sleep. "I don’t know," Manuel said. "I didn’t sleep with him."

by Diamondhacks on Feb 22, 2012 11:13 AM EST up reply actions

Please continue to develop them there.

"There's one rule by which I generally run my life:
What would Mothra do?"

by Jim McLennan on Feb 22, 2012 11:49 AM EST up reply actions

I am not the ever famous Hacks

by AzDbackfanInDc on Feb 21, 2012 7:20 PM EST reply actions

oh nevermind

by AzDbackfanInDc on Feb 21, 2012 7:21 PM EST reply actions

thanks Jim,nice job

♯♩♪ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way ♫♬♭♮

by hotclaws on Feb 21, 2012 7:23 PM EST reply actions

Awesome list.

Cool to see it on Yahoo.

The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born, must first destroy a world.

by Stupendous Man on Feb 22, 2012 11:35 AM EST via mobile reply actions

Cool to see the Beer suggestion made it.

Freeze it..and make a popsicle

by Baja F1 on Feb 22, 2012 3:54 PM EST reply actions

Ahh I see now.......

What the Jim and Hacks thing is, i didnt read the comments. Cant we all just get along? We are all die hard dback fans or we wouldnt be here. If one hates the team so much, get off thebandwagon dude seriously.

by AzDbackfanInDc on Feb 22, 2012 7:16 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Are you referring to me?

Assuming I “hate the team” reflects either a lack of understanding and/or a definition of “team” that’s much broader than I (and many baseball fans) susbscribe to.

cheers

Reporters asked the Phillies' skipper how his pitcher had managed to injure himself in his sleep. "I don’t know," Manuel said. "I didn’t sleep with him."

by Diamondhacks on Feb 24, 2012 1:41 PM EST up reply actions

I don't comment on Yahoo

I have a browser add-on that blocks the cookies that track you around the web, and their site doesn’t work well unless you let them do so.

Anyway, agreed with some of the piece, and disagreed with other parts. I’d be hesitant to praise the D’Backs for not bankrupting municipalities for their spring training center, considering they hustled Pima County into putting tax money up for Tucson Electric, then let most of the star players avoid playing “home” spring games in TEP, and finally abandoned the field and the taxpayers’ investment altogether. It’s one reason I won’t give the organization any money by attending games. As a taxpayer in Pima County, they already took enough out of my pocket. At least the Rockies used an older field down here, which is now being leased by U of A for their baseball games. The D’Backs and White Sox insisted on shiny and new and taxpayer-funded. Love the players. Like the game. Won’t give the FO a penny.

by azshadowwalker on Feb 23, 2012 9:26 PM EST reply actions

Couple of points

Not many of the current FO were involved in the “hustling” – you need to speak to Jerry C and his pals about the shenanigans in the mid-90’s [which weren’t confined to Tucson, e.g. the sales tax increase, which the voters didn’t get a voice in, that paid for Chase…].

As for the departure, your beef is really with the White Sox. Their departure, leaving Tucson with only two teams, kicked in a lease condition that allowed the D-backs to move out too. And, in general, the Tucson government did very little to either retain the existing teams or make any attempt to attract others. They treated spring training as a cash cow, to be milked until it ran dry, from what I’ve read….

"There's one rule by which I generally run my life:
What would Mothra do?"

by Jim McLennan on Feb 23, 2012 10:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

This is pretty much true.

Its one reason I hate the White Sox so much.

I hated watching the Dbacks leave Tucson, but they really seemed to try to work with Pima County (and Tucson).

And, I only saw a handful of games during the spring, but I dont remember missing out on the star players. It was spring training though, so you do get a lot of unknowns out there.

by Bcawz on Feb 24, 2012 12:09 AM EST up reply actions