Willson Contreras Completely Triggers Cardinal Fans During Last Night's Game

Somehow, Willson Contreras has turned into a "love him or hate him" type of guy across the baseball world. Obviously Cubs fans would tend to love the guy, but opposing team's fans have started to become fed up with some of Contreras' "antics." And when I say antics, I mean playing with emotion. There may not be a fan base who has become more annoyed with Contreras than the St. Louis Cardinals. To their credit, the BFIB have multiple reasons to dislike the Cubs catcher: he plays for a division rival, he isn't afraid to show emotion which goes against the "Cardinal Way," and most importantly, Cardinals fans will never admit that Willson has become a better catcher than the God-sent Yadier Molina. If there are any Cardinals fans reading this article, I guarantee you they just pulled up Molina's career stats to show how much better Yadi is than Willson or they'll begin to list the accolades that Molina has accomplished during his 15-year career. I'll never argue Molina isn't a great catcher but the fact of the matter is Contreras has assumed the role of best catcher in the NL Central (and arguably in the National League.) I'd argue Contreras is probably the most hated Cubs player by the Best Fans in Baseball so when Contreras fired a ball into the upper deck of Busch Stadium last night during the Cubs 5-2 win over St. Louis, Cardinals fans lost their shit. Here's the play.

Contreras launching a ball into the stands (or out of the stadium) isn't something that is new this season. I can recall at least two or three time this season that I've seen Willy pull the same thing and while it's really not THAT big of a deal, Cardinals fans went berserk last night on Twitter.com reacting to the throw.

Look, was it necessary that he throw the ball into the stands? No. However, it's not like he lined a little kid up 20 feet away and fired a missile at him. The ball clearly would have made it to the upper deck (or beyond) with a limited velocity that nobody would have gotten seriously injured. Besides, it's not like the upper deck at Busch is ever really that full.

But still, Cardinals fans were up in arms that Contreras should be punished for such a brutal act of violence.

Any my absolute favorite response to this entire event claims that Willson Contreras has a strong enough arm to potentially kill a human being with that throw. Also note: if your Twitter name is 'Revive Whiteyball Permanently,' well I think that's all I need to know.

I'm sure me saying Contreras throwing the ball into the stands wasn't that big of deal will probably trigger Cardinals fans again and I'll get flooded with them sharing they have 11 World Series rings.