The Cardinals and their fans don’t really bother me.
Yes, they act like they invented baseball.
But it's nothing compared to Yankee fans who think they have the right to every MLB player through:
whatever BS mock trade they expect other teams to automatically accept, or
through Free Agency where players line up to sign with the Yankees like it's an episode of The Bachelor
This why Michael Kay and the rest of those blowhards hate Vlad so much. He’s one of the few players who flat-out said he hates the Yankees and would never sign there.
(Yeah Vlad took a two month break from that so his agent Marc Anthony could squeeze every single cent possible out of Ed Rogers but still.)
Cardinals fans are more like, “Look how we developed this prospect The Cardinal Way™ — aren't we great?” Not nearly as bad.