Chicago Cubs: Congratulations Chicago White Sox

[UMFan83]

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Classy move by the Cubs.

[frostwyrm]

Seeing as Chicago, New York, and Miami are the most challenging places to play, you have to tip your hat to the Sox.

[J.R.]

Kinda like throwing $1,000 bills into a cesspool.

 

Classy anyway.

[SouthSideRyan]

That's stupid, it woulda been funny if they had a sign that said go Red Sox LOL!!!!!!

 

Everyone knows showing class is stupid!!

[Bote McBoteface]

Thats stupid, and obviously insincere. If we are going to put things on the marquee that we really don't mean, why not go with "We'll try harder next year. We promise."

[don_kessinger_was_good]

The marquee should say: "We apologize for stealing your money the last 96 years. We'll try to put a better product on the field next year."

[burnt out cubbie fan]

Ok, they can tear down Wrigley now.

[UMFan83]

The marquee should say: "We apologize for stealing your money the last 96 years. We'll try to put a better product on the field next year."

 

Knowing the Cubs, the very next news on the Marquee would say "Cubs sign Dusty for two more years!"

[Bote McBoteface]

The marquee should say: "We apologize for stealing your money the last 96 years. We'll try to put a better product on the field next year."

 

Knowing the Cubs, the very next news on the Marquee would say "Cubs sign Dusty for two more years!"

 

If they put that there, why not just say, "Cubs clinch 100 year drought!"

[Derwood]

The marquee should say: "We apologize for stealing your money the last 96 years. We'll try to put a better product on the field next year."

 

Knowing the Cubs, the very next news on the Marquee would say "Cubs sign Dusty for two more years!"

 

If they put that there, why not just say, "Cubs clinch 100 year drought!"

 

They are saving that one for a few years :wink:

[kaseyi]

I can't belive it. The Cubs do something classy, Congratulating the White Sox and all the posts are bashing Dusty and the Cubs. Unbelieveable.

[BeerHere]

It was certainly an extremely frustrating year. With the sox winning their division and both the cards and stros clinching against the cubs, it's no wonder why everyone is so down.

 

But come on.

 

This was a very classy move by the Cubs. I honestly doubt that the sox would have the same degree of class, did they do anything in 2003?

[illiniguy]

It was certainly an extremely frustrating year. With the sox winning their division and both the cards and stros clinching against the cubs, it's no wonder why everyone is so down.

 

But come on.

 

This was a very classy move by the Cubs. I honestly doubt that the sox would have the same degree of class, did they do anything in 2003?

hell no they wouldn't look at that boob guillen showing the choke sign ot the indians. way to go ozzie, you are supposed to be part of the white sox management.

[circlechange]

Ok, they can tear down Wrigley now.

They've actually started doing this to the back wall along Sheffield, I noticed today.

[thedaymen]

Good for the Cubs, but seriously....wouldn't you have preferred to see "Go Red Sox?" It would have been a lot funnier.

[YearofDaCubs]

I'm glad they did it. The city of Chicago deserves a good team. I'm a Cubs fan but 'm still rooting for the WSox to win it all.

[SouthSideRyan]

Good for the Cubs, but seriously....wouldn't you have preferred to see "Go Red Sox?" It would have been a lot funnier.

 

I'm rooting against the White Sox about as hard as anyone on this board. I'm surrounded by these idiots. These idiots are my obnoxious friends. But no, I would not want to see Go Red Sox. I'd prefer to not stoop to their level and be that bush league.

[dalgreen]

I'm honestly looking to understand this Cub/White Sox stuff. I have no allegiance to the city of Chicago. I'm not from there nor was I born there. The only real connection I have to it is that I'm married to a Chicago girl. I grew up in Central Illinois where the White Sox were considered just another team. The real hatred was reserved for the Cardinals. My question is, why don't Chicago baseball fans root for the other guys to win the World Series or at least to get to it? Shouldn't Chicago fans just want a World Series parade to be held in Chicago? I think it's absolutely pathetic that Chicago has two baseball teams and yet no world champs in more than eighty-five years and one team cities like St. Louis, Minneapolis and Miami (South Florida) have had more parades. Is it that you hate the fans and they'd rub it in? Or what? After all, for the other six months of the year all of Chicago is united with the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. Just trying to understand, that's all.

[J.R.]

I'm honestly looking to understand this Cub/White Sox stuff. I have no allegiance to the city of Chicago. I'm not from there nor was I born there. The only real connection I have to it is that I'm married to a Chicago girl. I grew up in Central Illinois where the White Sox were considered just another team. The real hatred was reserved for the Cardinals. My question is, why don't Chicago baseball fans root for the other guys to win the World Series or at least to get to it? Shouldn't Chicago fans just want a World Series parade to be held in Chicago? I think it's absolutely pathetic that Chicago has two baseball teams and yet no world champs in more than eighty-five years and one team cities like St. Louis, Minneapolis and Miami (South Florida) have had more parades. Is it that you hate the fans and they'd rub it in? Or what? After all, for the other six months of the year all of Chicago is united with the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. Just trying to understand, that's all.

 

I'd compare it to the type of hatred seen often in college sports. You don't see Kentucky fans running to support Louisville's tourney runs for the "good of the state."

[Careless]

I'm honestly looking to understand this Cub/White Sox stuff. I have no allegiance to the city of Chicago. I'm not from there nor was I born there. The only real connection I have to it is that I'm married to a Chicago girl. I grew up in Central Illinois where the White Sox were considered just another team. The real hatred was reserved for the Cardinals. My question is, why don't Chicago baseball fans root for the other guys to win the World Series or at least to get to it? Shouldn't Chicago fans just want a World Series parade to be held in Chicago? I think it's absolutely pathetic that Chicago has two baseball teams and yet no world champs in more than eighty-five years and one team cities like St. Louis, Minneapolis and Miami (South Florida) have had more parades. Is it that you hate the fans and they'd rub it in? Or what? After all, for the other six months of the year all of Chicago is united with the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. Just trying to understand, that's all.

iI'd rather not have the cubs be the only example of such monumental managerial incompetence in baseball especially when it would allow a portion of people in this city to harass me mercilessly.

[dalgreen]

I'm honestly looking to understand this Cub/White Sox stuff. I have no allegiance to the city of Chicago. I'm not from there nor was I born there. The only real connection I have to it is that I'm married to a Chicago girl. I grew up in Central Illinois where the White Sox were considered just another team. The real hatred was reserved for the Cardinals. My question is, why don't Chicago baseball fans root for the other guys to win the World Series or at least to get to it? Shouldn't Chicago fans just want a World Series parade to be held in Chicago? I think it's absolutely pathetic that Chicago has two baseball teams and yet no world champs in more than eighty-five years and one team cities like St. Louis, Minneapolis and Miami (South Florida) have had more parades. Is it that you hate the fans and they'd rub it in? Or what? After all, for the other six months of the year all of Chicago is united with the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. Just trying to understand, that's all.

 

I'd compare it to the type of hatred seen often in college sports. You don't see Kentucky fans running to support Louisville's tourney runs for the "good of the state."

 

Considering the number of national championships theyboth have had since 1980 and not since 1918, I can understand the Louisville/UK hatred. Plus, their rivalry probably would extend to football, volleyball, track, baseball, etc. I don't know if that's a fair comparison.

[J.R.]

Considering the number of national championships theyboth have had since 1980 and not since 1918, I can understand the Louisville/UK hatred. Plus, their rivalry probably would extend to football, volleyball, track, baseball, etc. I don't know if that's a fair comparison.

 

What does the number of titles have to do with it?

 

I can't see many Cubs fans feeling any connection to the Sox' run. The jersey says "Chicago," but they may as well be from another planet.

[1908]

Just trying to understand, that's all.

It's just the way it works when it comes to baseball teams from the same city. You're either a Mets fan or a Yankee fan in New York, too. Heck, you were either a Dodger, Giant or Yankee fan in New York before those teams abandoned their fans for the West Coast. If you weren't around to see the White Sox fans celebrating in bars across Chicago when the Cubs lost the NLCS in 2003, I can see how you wouldn't understand the rivalry.

 

Go BoSox.

[dalgreen]

If you weren't around to see the White Sox fans celebrating in bars across Chicago when the Cubs lost the NLCS in 2003, I can see how you wouldn't understand the rivalry.

 

Go BoSox.

 

Gotcha.

[thedaymen]

I just consider the White Sox rivals, thats all. I would rather see nothing then "Go White Sox," but would rather see "Go Red Sox" then "Go White Sox," because at least that's funny.

 

Ok, truth be told, "Go Padres" would be my favorite. I wasn't a Cubs fan yet in 1984 :D