Cubs-White Sox Announcement?

[BT]

<!--quoteo(post=93563:date=Apr 29 2010, 01:49 PM:name=MrSheps)-->QUOTE (MrSheps @ Apr 29 2010, 01:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=93558:date=Apr 29 2010, 11:26 AM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Apr 29 2010, 11:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Out of all of them, the only ones I don't want to deal with are Sox fans. The reasons are myriad, but they, as a species, are off the scale annoying. And, as Butch has argued, there is no inherent baseball reason for the Cubs playing the Sox, other than money. They are not in our division. They are not in our league.

I am much happier when we beat the Cardinals, because those games matter. The only joy I take from a Sox win is that it's one less game I have to hear bullshit from Sox fans. If we sweep the Sox, I don't call Sox fans and rub it in their faces. I look at it as having survived another series with the assclowns of baseball.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So the core argument is still that Sox fans are unbearable dicks, right? Because it does matter when we beat the Sox, it counts as a win. It's like if the Bears beat the Jets. You'd rather beat the Packers so that a division foe gets a loss while you get a win, but the win is still a win. That's the inherent baseball reason. And money isn't the only thing driving it, fans want it. I get that not all fans do, but the vast majority of Cubs fans would be upset if the series went away, we can agree on that right?

Maybe I've just been lucky and had good experiences at Cubs/Sox games and you guys have had the opposite. But I know my friends in Chicago always go to those games or at least try to, a couple of them even go to the Cell.
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Maybe you have been lucky. I was at the game the Sox won in extra innings on Carlos Lee's grand slam. As I was leaving, a guy literally jumped in front of me and started screaming "YEEEESSS! YEEEESSSS!" into my face. Then, in the car on the way home, I listened to a guy call into a sportstalk radio program to explain how he burst into tears because he was so happy the Sox beat the Cubs.

Which brings me to the reason that this is worse than living in LA, or living in St. Louis. Because you only get shit there when the Cubs are in town. Chicago is a Sox town, as well as a Cubs town. So you have to listen to the Sox fans bullshit 50% of the time you pay attention to sports in Chicago.

And your Jets example works for me. A win against the Jets is a win nonetheless. However, if every time we played the Jets the city of Chicago was overrun with jackass Jet's fans for a week or two, who spent more time bashing the Bears than they did rooting for the Jets, getting in your face, and being obnoxious, how excited would you be every year for "Jets week"? I'm assuming not very.