Cubs-hating Sox fans? Grow up
October 3, 2007
BY JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
I'm asking White Sox fans to do the city a favor. I'd like you to stop picking fights with Cubs fans, stop rooting so bitterly against the Cubs, appreciate your World Series championship and please shut up.
Honestly, I think Sox fans might be more passionate about the Cubs losing than when their own team wins. That is weird, bizarre and not cool. When the Sox won two years ago, I don't recall many Cubs fans holding grudges about it. They were mad at their own team and management, an approach that should be adopted by Sox fans who've watched their general manager and manager screw up a good thing.
I used to add up the collective years without a World Series title on both sides of town, then use the big, ugly number in columns. If the Sox can break an 88-year drought and the Cubs can end a 99-year drought in a matter of two years, that will the local sports equivalent of coming back from the Great Chicago Fire. I'm not saying Sox fans should be belting out ``Go Cubs Go'' in South Side bars.
But don't be vicious haters. There's a lot more to despise in the world than the concept of the Cubs as champions.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mariottiweb/587380,mariottiweba100407.article
October 3, 2007
BY JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
I'm asking White Sox fans to do the city a favor. I'd like you to stop picking fights with Cubs fans, stop rooting so bitterly against the Cubs, appreciate your World Series championship and please shut up.
Honestly, I think Sox fans might be more passionate about the Cubs losing than when their own team wins. That is weird, bizarre and not cool. When the Sox won two years ago, I don't recall many Cubs fans holding grudges about it. They were mad at their own team and management, an approach that should be adopted by Sox fans who've watched their general manager and manager screw up a good thing.
I used to add up the collective years without a World Series title on both sides of town, then use the big, ugly number in columns. If the Sox can break an 88-year drought and the Cubs can end a 99-year drought in a matter of two years, that will the local sports equivalent of coming back from the Great Chicago Fire. I'm not saying Sox fans should be belting out ``Go Cubs Go'' in South Side bars.
But don't be vicious haters. There's a lot more to despise in the world than the concept of the Cubs as champions.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mariottiweb/587380,mariottiweba100407.article