Arizona Here I Come

[SL Card]

That's right guys, I've moved to Phoenix from St. Louis. Due to unconnected work transfers my brother and my daughter ended up in Gilbert and Tempe, so having no kin in the Lou anymore I made the move.

Really looking forward to watching the Big Red every week instead of the freaking game day 13 weeks of the season. The only downside is that I will sorely miss my (baseball) Cards

 

[jf-08]

Welcome to AZ!! What part of the Valley are you in?

 

[iLLmatiC]

That's right guys, I've moved to Phoenix from St. Louis. Due to unconnected work transfers my brother and my daughter ended up in Gilbert and Tempe, so having no kin in the Lou anymore I made the move.

Really looking forward to watching the Big Red every week instead of the freaking game day 13 weeks of the season. The only downside is that I will sorely miss my (baseball) Cards

Welcome!! Make yourself at home.

 

[Dback Jon]

Welcome to Arizona.


The Dbacks are better, anyways

 

[Mainstreet]

I think you are becoming an Arizona Cardinals fan at the right time. It should be fun!

 

[TheCardFan]

Welcome. Lot's of STL Cardinals fans here as well!

 

[SL Card]

Welcome to AZ!! What part of the Valley are you in?

I'm told I live in the South Mountain area, a block off of Baseline and 16th street.

 

[SL Card]

Welcome to Arizona.


The Dbacks are better, anyways

Kinda early to be imbibing, Jon!

 

[SL Card]

I think you are becoming an Arizona Cardinals fan at the right time. It should be fun!

That's what I'm hoping for. BTW I'm a fan since childhood. My 1st hate in this lifetime was Bidwill moving the team West

 

[Jetstream Green]

I think you are becoming an Arizona Cardinals fan at the right time. It should be fun!

I think he already is a St.Louis Football Cardinals, oops, I mean a Arizona Cardinal fan

 

[Jetstream Green]

That's what I'm hoping for. BTW I'm a fan since childhood. My 1st hate in this lifetime was Bidwill moving the team West

Bring those '80s uniforms with you

 

[Mainstreet]

That's what I'm hoping for. BTW I'm a fan since childhood. My 1st hate in this lifetime was Bidwill moving the team West

That was brutal. Even though Arizona gained an NFL team, moving the team in the middle of the night must have been disheartening. I'm glad you hung tough.

 

[SL Card]

Welcome. Lot's of STL Cardinals fans here as well!

Really!?? That surprises me

 

[SL Card]

That was brutal. Even though Arizona gained an NFL team, moving the team in the middle of the night must have been disheartening. I'm glad you hung tough.

As I remember there were murmurings of the move but nobody took that seriously

I think Bidwill was the first NFL owner that threatened to move if the city wouldn't build him a stadium.

JEEZ I hated that man!

 

[Mainstreet]

As I remember there were murmurings of the move but nobody took that seriously

I think Bidwill was the first NFL owner that threatened to move if the city wouldn't build him a stadium.

JEEZ I hated that man!

Moving a professional sports team from a home city or state is always a hurtful matter.

Michael Bidwill has proved to be a good owner so hopefully you can build new memories in Arizona.

 

[cardncubfan]

That's right guys, I've moved to Phoenix from St. Louis. Due to unconnected work transfers my brother and my daughter ended up in Gilbert and Tempe, so having no kin in the Lou anymore I made the move.

Really looking forward to watching the Big Red every week instead of the freaking game day 13 weeks of the season. The only downside is that I will sorely miss my (baseball) Cards

As a Cubs fan I don't think you are missing much. Btw, it's Bidwill.

My home town is divided between Stl Cards & Cubs fans. Huge rivalry in my town. I'm from about an hour & a half from the Lou.

 

[Dback Jon]

Kinda early to be imbibing, Jon!

I grew up in Springfield, IL - a Cubs fan in a sea of Cardinals fans. The Baseball Cards are the devils...

 

[CatBoxBackFan]

Really!?? That surprises me

I work with a teacher here in Oro Valley north of Tucson and she is a baseball Cards fanatic. She'll take 4 days off and stay up in Phoenix when the Cards come to town.

 

[TheCardFan]

I grew up in Springfield, IL - a Cubs fan in a sea of Cardinals fans. The Baseball Cards are the devils...

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[Dback Jon]

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Proof right there they sold their souls to win all those.

 

[SL Card]

As a Cubs fan I don't think you are missing much. Btw, it's Bidwill.

My home town is divided between Stl Cards & Cubs fans. Huge rivalry in my town. I'm from about an hour & a half from the Lou.

I can relate. Half of my family lived in Chicago. Strangely most of them were Sox fans

On the Cubbies: I was stunned when they dropped Mad Joe! I really like that guy. I can't speak to his in-game managing one way or another, I just like the man.

Has he ended up anywhere yet?

 

[SL Card]

Proof right there they sold their souls to win all those.

LOL now that sounds like the lament of a true Cubbie fan

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

As I remember there were murmurings of the move but nobody took that seriously

I think Bidwill was the first NFL owner that threatened to move if the city wouldn't build him a stadium.

JEEZ I hated that man!

You maybe right but I remember the Colts packing up in the middle of the night to move to Indie and the Browns move to Baltimore to become the Ravens

 

[SissyBoyFloyd]

Welcome to the valley of no major Pro Champions. Allow me to fill you in.

We have our original losing team, the Suns. 60 years of futility. One great NBA playoff championship series vs the Celtics back in the 70s..

Then our most loved Cardinals, as you know, snuck in one fairy tale season which they lost the super bowl in the last few seconds by a tippy toe.

The Coyotes - I should probably let a hockey fan share their story.

And finally our Diamondbacks who gave us the greatest moment in AZ sports. They are considered the 2001 World Series Champions* with what should be an asteric. It was fun and exciting, but looking back now, it surely was a purchased championship at the height of the steroid period. The following season they could not afford to pay all their players again so let many of them go, while others shrunk in size and back to their natural levels of performance when they came off the juice.

So us 21st century AZ fans keep on hoping we one day can enjoy a championship, purchased or not. Welcome aboard.

 

[SL Card]

You maybe right but I remember the Colts packing up in the middle of the night to move to Indie and the Browns move to Baltimore to become the Ravens

Both of those post Bidwill moves were egregious. I know the Indie band STILL plays together, and Paul Brown is more vilified than all others in any sport I can think of