Dayn Perry BP article about Cubs/Sox

[nilodnayr]

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7825

 

Did anyone else read this? I found it to be ridiculously stereotypical, bordering on racist. I didn't expect much considering the author, but by the end was kinda shocked. Aren't there like 28 BP writers that live in Chicago, why'd they have to go with a Cardinals guy to write an article about a Cubs/Sox WS.

 

I acknowledge its a tightrope to walk on when trying to explain the differences between the north and south sides and their respective fans, and I actually think he did a decent job of it at the beginning, but it just deteriorated at the end into this...

 

If the Sox and Cubs do meet in the World Series, expect each side to embrace the uncharitable renderings of the other. Sox fans will be crude, hostile, and dumb. Cubs fans will be pampered, weak, and privileged. Who among us doesn't like to think of our enemies—real or imagined—as being some unfortunate mix of those words? That's why the thought of it, Sox vs. Cubs, compels. It's the most American rivalry you can find. That's why it matters.

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The article sucks, as does Dayn Perry..but I don't see anything that is even close to racist.