I probably haven’t thought of him in five years. Maybe more.

Although I think everyone should watch the video because No Reservation is an awesome show. I think Cubs and Sox fans should unite and realize they’re all fucking retarded for liking the Bears.

I hate that fucking assclown.

That aside, I don’t think his comment here should be taken as an insult. He’s right, in a way, although it sounds a little bad. (And it’s that fucking assclown anyway, so that doesn’t help).

Besides, I’d take common sense over a degree any day, no diggity.
You wouldn’t believe how many valedictorians can’t drive for shit.

I’m sure there is a word in German that would do the trick; probably something really long ending with “aucccchh” and a bunch of u’s with dots on top scattered in the middle.

And the restaurant where you can get a menu that tastes like birthday cake? Badass.

White Sox fans, that is, seem to be mostly black people around here. In fact, I have only run into a single white White Sox fan my entire time in SC. And he was born and raised on the South Side.

When was it that rappers started wearing White Sox hats in their videos? When did it become the cool thing?

So, to reiterate, my observation is that White Sox fans down here are black folk. You can insert whatever stereotype you want here, I won’t.

I’M GONNA GO DOWNTOWN AND KICK MANCOWS ASS THAT FUCKER

ago. I’m not sure who did the polling, but IIRC, the end result was that the two fanbases the average Sox and Cubs fans were about equal in education and income.

I’m pretty sure he was talking about quality of schools and general level of education, and he was making more of a distinction between the North and South sides of the city. He was right that blue collar, lower-class neighborhoods typically have lower levels of education, lower levels of income and, as a result, schools with less money. The implications of such statistics is debatable — it’s difficult and, well, wrong to make value judgments (i.e. “North siders are better than South siders because they make more money”). It’s hard to tell whether or not Mancow’s comments were veiled classism (or even racism, based on the perceived racial disparities between the two sides of city), or whether he was just making an honest observation. I’d like to think his radio personality is just a character, but you never know… Bourdain seemed to like him, at least.

Why he made the connection to baseball fans, I don’t know. Being a Sox fan doesn’t automatically mean you’re a factory worker from Bridgeport, and being a Cubs fans doesn’t mean you’re necessarily a trust fund baby living in a high-rise apartment in Lincoln Park. The same could be said for stereotypes of “North-sider” and “South-sider,” but at least those labels are determined by geographical location — giving them slightly more justification — and not an arbitrary sports team preference.

If Bourdain asked me that question, I’d simply reply: “Latitude.” Make all the sweeping generalizations you like, but you’ll never be able to categorize an entire half of one of the largest cities into the world.