How to cope with being a Cubs fan in Chicago

[NUKID02]

Hey guys. I'm a journalism student at Northwestern and, for one of my classes, decided to do an article about how Cubs fans cope with their team's storied yet sordid history. So: How do you guys do it? Lower your expectations? Never give up hope? Drink heavily during games? The piece I'm working on is going to be pretty satirical, so the funnier the better. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[SouthSideRyan]

Pass.

[UMFan83]

Ask sulley how he copes.

[Guest]

Hey guys. I'm a journalism student at Northwestern and, for one of my classes, decided to do an article about how Cubs fans cope with their team's storied yet sordid history. So: How do you guys do it? Lower your expectations? Never give up hope? Drink heavily during games? The piece I'm working on is going to be pretty satirical, so the funnier the better. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Start up a couple websites to share the pain with others.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Hey guys. I'm a journalism student at Northwestern and, for one of my classes, decided to do an article about how Cubs fans cope with their team's storied yet sordid history. So: How do you guys do it? Lower your expectations? Never give up hope? Drink heavily during games? The piece I'm working on is going to be pretty satirical, so the funnier the better. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

 

 

CUBS are in town, take your act out to Wrigley Field and do your research there. Thanx.

[Guest]

Hey guys. I'm a journalism student at Northwestern and, for one of my classes, decided to do an article about how Cubs fans cope with their team's storied yet sordid history. So: How do you guys do it? Lower your expectations? Never give up hope? Drink heavily during games? The piece I'm working on is going to be pretty satirical, so the funnier the better. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

 

 

CUBS are in town, take your act out to Wrigley Field and do your research there. Thanx.

The post is from a Chicago area comcast IP. Now, if he really wants to show he's legit, he could post a followup from a school computer and I can see a NW IP. :)

[Little Slide Rooter]

I usually pretend to be a Northwestern journalism student and troll on message boards.

[CubbieBum]

How do I cope? With football in August-February. Once football gets going I can live with the Cubs sucking.

[weis21]

IN CHICAGO

[chuckywang]

I can imagine an Onion-like article on this topic. However, I'm not clever enough to write it.

[Outshined_One]

How do you cope with knowing you're going into a dying field?

[mike2482]

I cut myself to relieve the pain.

[Old Style]

How do you cope with knowing you're going into a dying field?

ZING!

[erik316wttn]

Expect the worst, hope for the best.

[Roast]

How do you cope with knowing you're going into a changing field?

Changing field. There will always be a need for news and professionals to report it.

 

 

Or so I hope

[SouthSideRyan]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

[Old Style]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

Is your name Paul Sullivan?

[FergieJ31]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

 

Yeah, just look at Paul Sullivan or Jay Mariotti. Hopefully the OP is aiming higher. There will always be demand for sports journalists as long as there as sports fans.

[SouthSideRyan]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

 

Yeah, just look at Paul Sullivan or Jay Mariotti. Hopefully the OP is aiming higher. There will always be demand for sports journalists as long as there as sports fans.

 

There will be demand for sportswriters, not sports journalists. I don't know if by definition they are different, but in practice they sure are. Going into journalism to get into sportswriting seems like a really poor career move.

[Guest]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

 

Yeah, just look at Paul Sullivan or Jay Mariotti. Hopefully the OP is aiming higher. There will always be demand for sports journalists as long as there as sports fans.

 

There will be demand for sportswriters, not sports journalists. I don't know if by definition they are different, but in practice they sure are. Going into journalism to get into sportswriting seems like a really poor career move.

In starting up 312, I can tell you that I'm finding it very difficult to find people who:

 

1) know how to write well

2) really know sports

 

Of course, to be fair, it may be the third requirement that's really holding things up:

 

3) is willing to work for free until the site has sufficient revenues

[SouthSideRyan]

There's no need to be a professional journalist when reporting on sports.

 

Yeah, just look at Paul Sullivan or Jay Mariotti. Hopefully the OP is aiming higher. There will always be demand for sports journalists as long as there as sports fans.

 

There will be demand for sportswriters, not sports journalists. I don't know if by definition they are different, but in practice they sure are. Going into journalism to get into sportswriting seems like a really poor career move.

In starting up 312, I can tell you that I'm finding it very difficult to find people who:

 

1) know how to write well

2) really know sports

 

Of course, to be fair, it may be the third requirement that's really holding things up:

 

3) is willing to work for free until the site has sufficient revenues

 

And 3 is why aspiring to be a sportswriter is a foolish endeavor. Even when the site has sufficient revenues, I can't imagine you'll be paying anyone anything close to a living wage + benefits. It's more of a hobby than a job.