A tale of two teams: the Cardinals screw up, but still have our hearts - A Hunt and Peck

Day in and day out during the summer we watch Cardinal baseball. We could not tell you exactly why we do this, what compels us to dedicate hours of our day to something that has no impact on our life. But we like it and we do it.

Even when this is what we our subjected to:

pic.twitter.com/2fGPYT9TGS

— Double Birds (@2xBirds) July 24, 2017

Probably because on the flip side, we sometimes get this:

Win or lose, I love these guys.

(Thanks to the wonderful @cardinalsgifs for looking this over for me.) pic.twitter.com/l6a20072bv

— Tyler's Opinion (@Tyler_Opinion) July 24, 2017

I'll tell you what - I love the heck outta both those teams.

H/T to @SimulacruMusial for the links to these tweets!

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