It must gall the Cubbie faithful to no end that a bunch of no name and second tier players won the World Series. I passed through town a week and a half ago and was stunned at the lack of press and joy in the Chicago papers on behalf of the White Sox. Apparently misery loves company, and the Windy city of rather lonely these days. Perhaps if the Cubs changed their name to the Blue Sox they might win a championship? It seems that any team with the name "Sox" in it wins.
At any rate, I was surprised at how little play the Series got in Chicago. Lemme hear from a native just what the town's sentiments were.
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Jophiel, so how's northern Chicago doing these days?Follow
Well Jophiel is about as close to Chicago as Yonkers is to Manhattan, but...
There was a pretty good amount of press coverage for the Sox. Special sections in the newspaper every day, and all that.
Last Friday featured a parade through the south side culminating in a rally downtown, attended by hundreds of thousands overall.
Sports memorabilia shops in Wrigleyville even started selling Sox merchandise for the first time ever.
That said, the sheer number of Cubs fans in the city outweighs the number of Sox fans and so the excitement levels will no doubt reflect that.
Yeah, I'm not in the city but I don't know where you got the idea there was no coverage. I actually ******* on the forums here that all the "real" news was pushed off by Series coverage in the Trib. Hell, Fitzgerald's indictments took a friggin' side column to crap about some Sox parade in honor of their homecoming.
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Totem wrote:
Totem, you must have been looking at the Chicago Tribune when you were in town, as they own those lovable "Aw-shucks wait til next year!!!" Cubs, hence explaining their mediocre coverage. As you can see here there are a few White Sox fans in our fair city.
We even held a moment of silence during the rally for our dear beloved "Cubbies", and you could hear a pin drop, except for a brief moment when there was faint sobbing heard from one of the lofts in the condos that dot the 'Gold Coast' near 'Wrigleyville'. The feint sobbing and cries of Steve Bartman echoing on the wind.
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I passed through town a week and a half ago and was stunned at the lack of press and joy in the Chicago papers on behalf of the White Sox
Totem, you must have been looking at the Chicago Tribune when you were in town, as they own those lovable "Aw-shucks wait til next year!!!" Cubs, hence explaining their mediocre coverage. As you can see here there are a few White Sox fans in our fair city.
We even held a moment of silence during the rally for our dear beloved "Cubbies", and you could hear a pin drop, except for a brief moment when there was faint sobbing heard from one of the lofts in the condos that dot the 'Gold Coast' near 'Wrigleyville'. The feint sobbing and cries of Steve Bartman echoing on the wind.
Maybe it is a matter of perception, where in cities that I have lived in where a championship was the only thing people talked, watched, or read about, Chicago's response seemed rather... muted. Almost like people didn't want a pennant to come to town in this fashion.
I dunno. It just seemed awfully quiet.
Totem
I dunno. It just seemed awfully quiet.
Totem
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