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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,4661514.story
I'm sensing a theme here.
From the article
ThanksYou'd think a Cubs fan would be smart enough to go after someone from the other team.
but your guys had hippie hair and no shirts
Riiiiiiiiight. William Ligue Jr just had his Mensa card revoked. From same article:
It was a great day in White Sox history. I mean who would want to watch the Tigers play twice in the same day anyway?Riiiiiiiiight. William Ligue Jr just had his Mensa card revoked. From same article:
Hmmmmm very interestingMister Martie said:
hes from romeoville.
By 1999 I had taken a stance of not giving them a dime of my money. No tickets, no attendence at games where I'd have to buy their concessions, no hats, no jerseys, nothing. The most they would get out of me was time spent watching on TV. It was pretty much because they made no attempt to get Randy Johnson after they made the playoffs in 1998. Not getting him during 1998 almost cost them a chance to get to the playoffs in the first place. Houston got him (Corey Patterson would have looked real good in Mariner blue, wouldn't he have?) and ran away with the division and the Cubs stumbled to the Wild Card and got swept by Atlanta. Randy Johnson was the difference in the division that year and the difference maker they needed to go for a World Series. When they came out early in free agency that year, and basically said that Johnson wasn't even a consideration, I was dumbfounded. Couple that with raising ticket prices, selling off more and more of the broadcast rights so games weren't on WGN any more, etc. Eveerything they did reeked of business decisions and not baseball decisions. I had enough of the nameless faces in the Tribune Tower preventing the team from doing what was neccessary to improve the product on the field even though they were drawing 2 - 2.5 million per year and had a bottomless pit of wealth within the company. It was nothing but another extension of the business to them so that's how I started treating it and decided to stop patronizing it.Fast forward to January of 2000.Had son. Knew I was going to have to take him to baseball games somewhere. Decided to not raise him to cheer for losers. Became White Sox fan. If the White Sox didn't have a winning season, didn't make the playoffs, didn't win the World Series, so be it. At least I knew the White Sox were trying. IMHO winning baseball is a business to the White Sox. The lose, they don't draw. It has been that way since Veeck left. They have to win to survive. Turning turnstyles is the business the Tribune is in when it came to the Cubs. If they had a jumbotron, they'd probably draw 20,000 to watch road games on TV. Only recently, when they had to treat what they had as a commodity, because they knew they were going to sell, did the Tribune start putting real money into the product on the field. The whole thing was actually pretty easy. I was Cubs fan because that's how I was raised, it's what dad was. I never hated the White Sox as a Cubs fan. I went to plenty of games at Comiskey, cheered them on when they did good because good baseball interests me. If they weren't doing good, I just didn't pay attention to them, which was easy to do in Chicago during the late 70s and into the 80s. With the Cubs I died with every loss and I was tired of it. Would it have hurt to be a Cubs fan in 2005 when the Sox won it all? Probably. I liked seeing them do good, but that would have been pretty painful. Plus there's the bragging rights.My dad even told me that he didn't blame me when I told him, and knew I was a stubborn enough ******* to stick to it.Couple all of that with the fact that moved to Romeoville, and here I am 8+ years later. I still think it's one of the best decisions I've made in my life.8 more years of failureNot being able to get tickets easilyCement falling from the upper deck on fans Sosa's corked bat.5 outs awayBartmanRunning their own ticket brokerPremium pricing for premium gamesFights with the city about renovations at the park to get more seats because they obviously weren't making enough moneyFights with the neighbors about the rooftops and them putting up drapes to keep them from looking in after countless years of allowing itRunning Steve Stone and Chip Caray out of townDusty destroying Wood and Prior.The impending Eamus Catuli Y2Kesque crisis that comes with a century of futility. To think I traded all of these things, and more, to root for a World Series champion in the City of Chicago.Whatever was I thinking?
I wonder if he already has an alias planned for when they win it.Just say you changed your mind, Limp. Why the sob story?
I actually had no problem with his explanation.
Better to know that than to just think he's a bitter ##### who just enjoys ####### up other teams' threads.
I actually had no problem with his explanation.Better to know that than to just think he's a bitter ##### who just enjoys ####### up other teams' threads.
Sob story?
There's no sob story here. Just a tale of someone coming to a realization that his money and emotions are best spent elsewhere.And as for the alias planned? Why in the world would I want an alias for that? I'll congradulate the Cubs fans on finally knowing what it feels like and remind them that as a Sox fan, I've already know it for 'x' amount of years
Limp Ditka said:
@ putting his full address in the article. what a turd. also 
@ this stupid thread. every team has ####### fans.
And it don't stop 
