DrCrawdad
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I've followed both teams for years. I attended my first game at Wrigley in 1985 & was in the left-field bleachers (front row!) for Mark Prior's first home game. There were many others too!
I think it’s certainly possible and reasonable for someone to be a fan of one team and follow the other baseball team in town too. I am a fan of the Sox, that’s the team I’m emotionally invested in. However, I admit (without a blush) to following the Cubs. I am a fan of baseball. I don’t see why that’s weird to some Cubs and Sox fans.
If I were in NYC, or Detroit or where ever I’d still be a fan of the Sox but I’d follow that local team and wish to discuss that team. And in that arena, if someone pounded the Sox, I’d stick up for my team.
Now regarding my post totals in SB Nation. You're right, I don't post much at all at the White Sox SB Nation group. However I do post regularly at White Sox Interactive, the Sox old newsgroup and a couple other Sox sites.
Come on by White Sox Interactive, there are several Cubbie fans who post there regularly. Then there are Cubbie fans from BCB who lurk at White Sox Interactive.
"Don’t belittle entire fanbases or neighborhoods…simply because they are within proximity to some people who don’t operate (or look) the same way you do." - AndrewJStone 6/29/2010
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"...I love Wrigley Field, but ...I hate working at Wrigley. Ballparks are ballparks to me." - Ozzie Guillen, ESPN article November 30, 2011
Prison for 2nd Cubs fan involved in a '08 mob attack
by DrCrawdad on Jan 6, 2011 10:43 AM EST
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
In 2008 three Cubs fans attacked a Sox fan at a 2 year old girls birthday party. As a result of the attack the Sox fan was blinded in his right eye (some reports say "he lost his eye" and now has a prosthetic eye). Two weeks after this sad attack there was another mob attack when after a Cubs loss at Miller Park three Cubs fans attacked a Brewers fan, knocking his tooth out and punching out a woman too.
Two of the birthday attackers have now been sentenced, 39-year-old Boguslaw Czapla got 3 years. Boguslaw's brother, Jaroslaw, got 6 months. The third attacker, Maciej Trojnar, is still on the lam.
Boguslaw Czapla
Jaroslaw Czapla
Tribune story, Northwest Herald, Daily Herald and Huffington Post.
98 commentsCoach K: "...We're not, thank goodness, the Cubs"
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, on the Blue Devils living up to the standards of past teams.
"For a while when I dated my wife, I had trouble living up to the expectations of her former boyfriend. Just judge people for who they are right now. We're not the Yankees, we're not, thank goodness, the Cubs. It's different. It's college, just give them an opportunity."
Frank Thomas retires
"Just had a good talk with Frank Thomas at the Comcast charity event. He is officially retiring from baseball." - Scott Merkin's Twitter.
And the MLB story here.
Gordon Beckham gets hit where it hurts.
OT: Laborious Song List For Today
by DrCrawdad on Sep 8, 2009 8:07 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
* There is Power in a Union, Billy Bragg
* Cleaning Windows, Van Morrison
* We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, The Animals
* Fruits Of My Labor, Lucinda Williams
* Hard Times For An Honest Man, John Mellencamp
* Honest Work, Graham Parker
* I Am The Working Man, Dusty Drake
* I've Been Working, Bob Seger
* Man In A Cornershop, The Jam
* Workin' Man Blues, Merle Haggard
* Mr. President Have Pity On The Working Man, Randy Newman
* We Can't Make It Here, James McMurtry
* Welcome To The Working Week, Elvis Costello
* Working Class Hero, John Lennon
* Working In A Coalmine, Lee Dorsey and Devo versions
* Working Man, Rush
* Working Nine To Five, Dolly Parton
* Maggie's Farm, Robert Allan Zimmerman
* Why Don't you Get a Job, The Offspring
* Dirty Work, Steely Dan
* That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On, Sam Cooke
* Hard Day's Night, The Beatles
* Money, Pink Floyd
* Workin' for a Livin-Huey Lewis and the News
* Takin' Care of Busines, BTO
* The Promised Land, The Boss
* Career Opportunities, The Clash
* Death Or Glory, The Clash
* Money for Nothing, Dire Straits
* Truckin', Greatful Dead
* 30 days in the hole, Humble Pie
* We built this City, Jefferson Starship
* If I had a Hammer Take, Peter, Paul, & Mary
* This Job and Shove It, Johnny Paycheck
* Blue Collar, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
* Working on the Chain Gang, Sam Cooke
* New York Mining Disaster 1941, the BeeGees
* Five O'Clock World, the Vogues
* Just a Job to Do, Genesis
* 40 Hour Week, Alabama
* 16 Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
* Cumberland Blues, Grateful Dead
* Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man, Travis Tritt
* Fade Away, Stellar Road
* Welcome To The Occupation, REM
* Workin' On The Highway, Springsteen
* Everybodys working for the weekend, Loverboy
* Dirty Work, Steely Dan
* Bang the Drum all day, Todd Rundgren
* Waitress, Freddy Jones Band
*No Thing On Me, Curtis Mayfield
* U.S Blues, The Grateful Dead
* Working For The Man, Roy Orbison
* Pay You Back With Interest, The Hollies
* Let's Work Together, Canned Heat
* Passenger Side, Wilco
* Back on the Chain Gang, The Pretenders
* Get A Job, The Offspring
* Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett (early in the song mentions a "Labor Day" show)
Ernie Banks, Meet Ernie Banks
by DrCrawdad on Sep 2, 2009 9:13 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
LIFE magazine has made many of their photos available online (Cubs). I particularly liked the ones of Charlie Grimm and the one of the "college of coaches."
Andrew Greeley at it again...
by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:24 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
What is it with Andrew Greeley? Why does he feel compelled to smear and put down Sox fans?
When the Sox won the World Series Greeley wrote an ugly, hateful smear on Sox fans. Now he's at it again. This time it's a gratuitous smear of Sox fans.
Who are those who reject compromise of a useless and criminally deadly war like Iraq? They are the blusterers, members of "veteran's organizations," mountain folk, crackers, West Texans, blue collar workers, evangelical clergy, neo-cons, Republicans, white ethnics, Sox fans...
Here's a heaping helping of the smears, stereotypes and lies spread by Greeley less than 3 years ago:
It's not as though the White Sox are a real Chicago franchise like the Cubs or the Bears or Notre Dame...the behavior of White Sox fans, an intolerable bunch of human beings when baseball is the subject (who beat up on wives of opposing players)...My seminary classmates who were Sox fans were insufferable on the days they won and we lost. More mature than they were, we Cub fans felt no need to cackle triumphantly when the Sox lost...
So, let's see Greeley thinks Cubbies fans are superior to Sox fans and he demonstrates this by stereotyping and spreading ugly smears. Really, "father," WWJD?
WSJ: The Decline of the National League
by DrCrawdad on Jul 14, 2008 10:12 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
The Wall Street Journal examines "The Decline of the National League." Included is a graphic entitled: "The Long National League Nightmare."
Of course, all said and done the history does not make an AL victory inevitable Tuesday nor another World Series Championship to the AL.
Interesting read.
They play the same game. They pick from the same pool of players. For some reason, though, they don't get the same results.
By just about every measure, the 16 teams in Major League Baseball's National League are inferior to the 14 in the American League. The AL has won 11 of the last 16 World Series, including three of the last four. The annual All-Star Game, to be played Tuesday, has practically become a farce: Not counting a 2002 tie, the AL has won 10 straight.
Zambrano, White Sox fan, future Sox pitcher?
by DrCrawdad on Mar 19, 2008 12:53 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
'I told my family and my friends that before my career ends, I want to play for the White Sox. Right now, my priority is helping this club. That's what I am trying to do. But I used to be, when I was growing up, I was a White Sox fan. But every time I say that, the Chicago Cubs fans get jealous and pissed off.'' - Carlos Zambrano, as quoted in the Sun-Times, March 16, 2008
The 18 Best Jewish Ballplayers of All Time by Salon.com
by DrCrawdad on Sep 2, 2007 12:44 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
If you're looking for a bit of baseball fun reading, head over to Salon.com and read the article, "The 18 Best Jewish Ballplayers of All Time"
"So who are these 18 bashin' boychiks?"
Biggest choke job, 1969 Cubs or 2006 Sox?
by DrCrawdad on Sep 19, 2006 8:56 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
The Tribunes own Jimmy Greenfield says it's the 2006 Sox.
Baker hasn't given up on playoffs
by DrCrawdad on Aug 6, 2006 7:41 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Keep on the sunny side...
Tribune shout-out to Yellon...
by DrCrawdad on Jul 7, 2006 12:24 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
The Tribune, well ChicagoSports.com, has an article entitled, "Blogosphere Therapy." I quickly perused the article searching for BleedCubbieBlue and finally Yellon gets a mention in the last paragraph.
Eating Raul Valdes
by DrCrawdad on Apr 14, 2006 12:10 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Is Raul Valdes a viable option to replace Rusch? I don't know much about Valdes except that he's a Cuban. Thoughts?
Talking Turk...
by DrCrawdad on Mar 17, 2006 1:18 PM EST
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Turk Wendell is talking (again) and Bonds and Sosa won't like what he's saying.
Prior doctor appointment...
by DrCrawdad on Mar 14, 2006 6:44 PM EST
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Shoulder trouble...
BP: Prior shoulder trouble...
by DrCrawdad on Feb 20, 2006 9:14 PM EST
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
According to Baseball Prospectus "Under The Knife" by Will Carroll, there are reports that Mark Prior is having shoulder trouble.
Just posting the report. Please don't shoot the messenger.
Real Chicago Sports: Photographs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times
by DrCrawdad on Nov 22, 2005 11:59 PM EST
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Real Chicago Sports: Photographs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times. Great pictures of the Cubs, Sox, Bears and other Chicago sports activities.
Why did you pick Boston to win over the White Sox?
by DrCrawdad on Oct 8, 2005 8:02 AM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
White Sox sweep the World Champion Boston Red Sox. Berman wept.
CHOKE ON THIS!
by DrCrawdad on Sep 29, 2005 6:40 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Oh, how the Trib and many Cub fans hoped for a Sox choke. Sorry, the chokes on you!
Minoso Statue Vandalized During Cubs/Sox Series
by DrCrawdad on Jun 29, 2005 12:12 PM EDT
on Bleed Cubbie Blue
Dead ivy, blame Sox fans on the front page. Minoso statue vandalized, blame no one on page four.
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