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Calling All White Sox Fans

What, am I the only White Sox fan in the entire blogosphere?

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Steven Den Beste (mail) (www):
Well, Pej certainly isn't one. (He's a die-hard Cubs fan.)
10.16.2005 6:31pm
Dean Esmay:
Sore loser.

"Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground?"

Tee-hee!
10.16.2005 7:28pm
Steve Donohue (mail) (www):
Frankly, I'm suprised they've been selling out their playoff games. You're not only one of the few in the blogosphere, you're just one of the few period.
10.16.2005 7:51pm
Ken McCracken (mail) (www):
The best thing about the Sox winning . . .

you can rub it in the Cubbies faces!
10.16.2005 8:04pm
Ken McCracken (mail) (www):
Just to add: you know what Dean, no one around here even seems to really care that that Sox are winning - I think people have had their delusions shattered too often to really get psyched for this.

Not like when the Bulls were great - that was a lock every year. This city shut down when they were in the playoffs.
10.16.2005 8:06pm
Arnold Harris (mail):
I know it is neiter reasonable nor polite to hate anyone, and it probably shortens ones life as well.

But I sure as hell hate those White Sox. Because those southside motherfuckers haven't accomplished anything like this since 1959. And then the blew the series. And before that? What did we get from these bums? Nothing since 1919, when all, by themselves, they invented big-time baseball scandal by throwing the World Series. All because Rothstein promised to make a few of them rich. (I'm glad one of the New York mobsters bumped off Rothstein a few years later.)

So all told, what do Chicagoans get out of the southside bunch but hopes, promises and disappointments?

So I hate the motherfuckers. And I think they are going to clean the clocks for the Angels and get into the World Series this year. Why? Because Chicago, past and present, is due for another White Sox baseball disappointment. Life just wouldn't be normal without it.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb
10.16.2005 8:49pm
Dean Esmay:
Arnold: Ah, bite me ya Cubby lovin' pussy. At least the Sox made it to the series in '59, and won in '17. You Cubby losers can't even match that!

(Heehee! Seriously, it's just baseball.)
10.16.2005 11:06pm
Brad Warbiany (www):
I grew up in Chicago, and was in the West 'burbs, which is no-mans land when it comes to baseball. I was a Cubs fan but harbored no animosity towards the Sox. But then I moved to Irvine, CA, and was there for the Angel's world series run. And now I'm in Atlanta.

I'm pulling for the Sox here, but not enough into it to really care either way.
10.16.2005 11:09pm
Steven Den Beste (mail) (www):
I was curious, so I checked. The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908.

The last time they won the NL penant was 1945.
10.16.2005 11:40pm
Sean Golden (mail) (www):
Heh, at least you have baseball teams.

We have the Rockies.
10.16.2005 11:40pm
Bryan AWS (mail) (www):
I'm rooting for the Chicago boys over the Angels - mainly because the angels play in the division against my Texas Rangers and they have that STUPID name change to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. But if they go up against my Astros, I'm afraid I'm calling up all the Texas mojo against those boys.

And it takes a lot for me to say that, because that new Comiskey Park SUCKS big time. You feel like you're sitting on a high-pitch roof up in the upper deck.
10.17.2005 12:27am
Steve Donohue (mail) (www):
In all fairness to the new Comiskey Park, the new renovations made the upper deck a lot more enjoyable, as well as the park as a whole.
10.17.2005 1:31am
Bryan AWS (mail) (www):
the new renovations made the upper deck a lot more enjoyable,

Unless they've updated it again within the last four years, the upper deck is like sitting suspended above the field without a net. That was not enjoyable for me - although watching frank thomas hit a homer against the BoSox was.
10.17.2005 2:26am
Steve Donohue (mail) (www):
They updated it two years ago. The upper deck is still steep, but not nearly as bad.
10.17.2005 11:22am