02-05-2010, 12:23 PM
<!--quoteo(post=78699:date=Feb 5 2010, 09:55 AM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Feb 5 2010, 09:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=78693:date=Feb 5 2010, 09:27 AM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Feb 5 2010, 09:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->All that Sox shit on the north side...blah.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Slightly off topic, but that is probably my biggest pet peeve right now. I HATE seeing any Sox stuff on the North Side. These North Side Sox fans have come out of the woodwork in recent years, and I have a hard time understanding it or accepting it, and I've lived here all of my life. And these are the fans with gigantic chips on their shoulders, smugly parading around with their hats and shirts everywhere. I see the same characters all the time. It's disgusting. Sometimes it feels like WE are the 2nd class team in the area. Where does it come from? Did these people all migrate from the same South Side enclave like sheep, waiting for the day that they would rise from the shadows and stage a revolt on the North? I know it sounds petty and immature, but this has been burning me up for a long time now, and it has only gotten worse since 2005.
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We're on the same page, my friend. I don't see much Sox gear on the North Shore, but fuck if I don't see a shitload of Sox gear downtown in the Loop. Honestly, it feels like people wearing Sox hats/shirts/jackets/etc. outnumber people wearing Cubs gear 2:1. I don't know if this is just my own warped perception, but it sure seems that way.
My feeling is that a good portion of the Sox gear wearing douchebags are just wannabe thugs who think the Sox logo looks gangsta. But still -- pre-2005 it wasn't this way at all.
The last Bulls game I went to (I don't go to many as my interest in the Bulls, and the NBA in general, is at an all-time low) was the Bulls/Celtics playoff game. Awesome game, by the way. And you know what was weird? Even during a Bulls playoff game, I detected an anti-Cubs vibe there. During a time out, they showed a little "I love Chicago" montage on the jumbotron. A bunch of landmarks, people in the city, etc. A lot of clips of Sox games, Bears games, Bulls games, Blackhawks games. A lot of people wearing Bulls and Sox gear. And one -- ONE -- little clip of a total whitebread looking family wearing fanny packs and Cubs hats. And a pretty good chunk of the crowd <i>booed.</i> <b>They booed the Cubs fans on the jumbotron during a Bulls playoff game.</b> It felt like I was in St. Louis or something. It was unreal.
Sometimes I feel like Charlton Heston and I've just crash landed on a strange, yet familiar planet...
Slightly off topic, but that is probably my biggest pet peeve right now. I HATE seeing any Sox stuff on the North Side. These North Side Sox fans have come out of the woodwork in recent years, and I have a hard time understanding it or accepting it, and I've lived here all of my life. And these are the fans with gigantic chips on their shoulders, smugly parading around with their hats and shirts everywhere. I see the same characters all the time. It's disgusting. Sometimes it feels like WE are the 2nd class team in the area. Where does it come from? Did these people all migrate from the same South Side enclave like sheep, waiting for the day that they would rise from the shadows and stage a revolt on the North? I know it sounds petty and immature, but this has been burning me up for a long time now, and it has only gotten worse since 2005.
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We're on the same page, my friend. I don't see much Sox gear on the North Shore, but fuck if I don't see a shitload of Sox gear downtown in the Loop. Honestly, it feels like people wearing Sox hats/shirts/jackets/etc. outnumber people wearing Cubs gear 2:1. I don't know if this is just my own warped perception, but it sure seems that way.
My feeling is that a good portion of the Sox gear wearing douchebags are just wannabe thugs who think the Sox logo looks gangsta. But still -- pre-2005 it wasn't this way at all.
The last Bulls game I went to (I don't go to many as my interest in the Bulls, and the NBA in general, is at an all-time low) was the Bulls/Celtics playoff game. Awesome game, by the way. And you know what was weird? Even during a Bulls playoff game, I detected an anti-Cubs vibe there. During a time out, they showed a little "I love Chicago" montage on the jumbotron. A bunch of landmarks, people in the city, etc. A lot of clips of Sox games, Bears games, Bulls games, Blackhawks games. A lot of people wearing Bulls and Sox gear. And one -- ONE -- little clip of a total whitebread looking family wearing fanny packs and Cubs hats. And a pretty good chunk of the crowd <i>booed.</i> <b>They booed the Cubs fans on the jumbotron during a Bulls playoff game.</b> It felt like I was in St. Louis or something. It was unreal.
Sometimes I feel like Charlton Heston and I've just crash landed on a strange, yet familiar planet...