World Series

This week the Chicago White Sox won their first World Series Championship since 1917. That is mad long. As you know I’m a Chicagoan myself. I wasn’t overly impressed by the whole thing and people think that’s weird. People who aren’t from the North Side that is. Have you ever been to Chicago? If you have… have you ever hung out both on the South Side and the North Side in the same trip? Of course you haven’t.

They are two completely different worlds. They might as well be two different cities. All these differences can easily be summed up in using baseball. Now I’m from the North Side, as is 99.99% of the people I know from Chicago.[1] They have a U.S. Cellular we have Wrigley. One of them is among the least favorite parks in baseball and has a corporate sponsor name. One maybe falling a part a little bit, but it’s a throwback to baseball history and is a vacation destination for baseball fans all over the world every year and is one of the most popular parks in the league.

One team gets criticized for its fans having to much fun.[2] They drink too much and party instead of paying attention to the game, which is a sellout despite the fact that they are in last place. The other had trouble selling out while in first place. So this empty stadium gets filled by people that run on the field and beat up and umpire and a first base coach for an opposing team. They also managed to have one of their fans slap the wife of an opposing player during the World Series.

Ok so lets talk scandals. One of their scandals was throwing the championship. I’m not the first to say that throwing a game is the worst possible thing that a team can do. Well in 1919, one of these teams did that because the players thought they were underpaid. The other team cheated too. One person managed to not only cork his bat, but is a likely steroid abuser… that’s not impressive either but hey he and another player almost single handedly resurrected the sport after a the 1994 strike.

Now I don’t hate the team from the South Side. I certainly don’t like them, but they are more or less another team in the league to me. They may as well be from another city.

Here is the biggest problem with the Cubs. They have no ability to do what the Red Sox and White Sox just accomplished. The White Sox came out of no where this year. No one had them winning that division let alone the World Series. The Cubs seem to get respect year after year[3] but can do nothing with it. They truly are cursed. Look at the last three years. The Cubs have their Bartman Moment, but we all know that’s just a symbol. Gonzalez misplayed a routine ball, Mark Prior fell apart, and the Cubs had another game to right the wrong. They didn’t and they lost in the 2003 NLCS after leading 3 games to 1.

The next year the Red Sox broke their Curse as the Yankees collapsed. Then the White Sox won theirs by having some of the worst umpiring I have ever seen in my life.[4] So 1918 is gone. 1917 is gone too. 1908 remains. Its going to remain for a long time. I’m not cool with that especially now that my brother losers have both won. That just leaves us.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not a hater. This was the best team this year they deserved to win the world series. How are you going to give the championship to fans like that though, and to a guy like Carl Everett? Carl Everett thinks that anyone who does not believe in Jesus and Christianity is going straight to hell. That’s a champion? No... thats just the president...


[1] I know this is going to be one sided just hear me out any way.
[2] Is that the best insult you can come up with?
[3] It’s a more recent occurance since now they actually try and win instead of just fielding a team while we drink and get sun.
[4] Piersynski to first after he struck out, home runs that were doubles, hit batsmen that weren’t hit it was a disaster