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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 2661727" data-attributes="member: 1241">you know, you might think that chicago, as a city would be happy and proud right now, with singing and dancing in the streets.  it's not.  really.  in fact, the city as a whole is almost embarrased and full of shame, because that "other team" won instead of the beloved cubs.no matter how bad the cubs do and how well the sox do, cubs games sell out and the sox stadium is lucky to get 2/3 full (except when they play the cubs, then "the cell" is packed - with cub fans). does new york have this problem too when the mets do well, or is this just a chicago phenomenon?you'd think that if one team in the city is doing well, then you would support them instead of being jealous because the team you prefer tanked out when they were in the same position a couple years ago.  witness a couple of responses from my uncles to my jubilant e-mail last night:"Are the Sox from Chicago?""I hope it's another 50 years too. This is not Chicago's team, this is a team that plays in Chicago for lack of a better place. I suggest some where in the Caribbean, they would fit in better. If I jumped ship like so many other fair weather fans (none of whom will be allowed back on), my father your grand father would turn in his grave. I'm pulling for the Astor's all the way. Otherwise it would be like rooting for the packers in the super bowl or any N.Y. team in any sport because THE CHICAGO TEAM didn't make it. No I'm sorry, I'm loyal. The only way I could ever hope that the pretenders from the other side of town win(by the way sox are something your wear on your feet and step on) is if they play St. Louis because it would be the better of to evils. Hey you know if the pay off the umpire again they could have a chance if they don't repeat history and throw the series."but, eh, whatever.  there's no reason to let several thousand chicagoans silly rivalries get me down.  i'm a fan of both chicago teams, and i am one of the few that doesn't think that concept is mutually exclusive.  i supported the cubs when they were in the playoffs, and i will do so again if they do so again.  i'm happy to see the sox get there first though, because many cubs fans are so petty and i would hate to hear them after the cubs win the championship.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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