Why Is there a generational difference in Cub-hating by White Sox fans?

You love Young, Gentile, Male Dogs.

;)

Ran a marathon today. Not conducive for fanatasy camp this week. Are you going next year (and leaving your newborn behind)?

would be good if more posters adopted your method.

…What I perceive to be a truth, at least.

I couldn’t, in my wildest dream, imagine myself ever rooting for them. Next you’re gonna tell me that you wore a Cub hat.
FTC

AC/DC gus. ;) Seriously, read the last threads from the Sox/Cubs games. Just as many posts about how it’s no big deal any more as “FTC”.

Oh, and FTC and FNS.

It was actually the Cubs’ 03 collapse that pulled me back into baseball. So I have them to thank for that.

There was a sizable gap from my early teen years to my mid-twenties where I lost all interest in baseball (thank you 1994). But when the buzz was building in 03 I kept an eye on the Cubs as they took care of Atlanta and seemed to be handling Florida. Then as the great collapse started to unfold, old feelings of loathing started bubbling back to the surface and in 2004 I found myself working a night job where all I could do to fill the hours was listen to White Sox games on the radio (Oh Rooney how we miss you).

So Dusty, Moises, Randall, Mark and Kerry, thanks for that.

I was at the bartman game. i wasn’t all gung ho, but i was with a big cub fan that goes to sox games with me and it was exciting baseball, so i didn’t really think about it. when bartman happened and then they choked, it all clicked — i had a sense of joy and relief. and seeing the misery in everyone’s eyes was icing on the cake.

because i cant think of anything more meaningless to spend 6 months in jail over than a sports argument

They bring their fans so much misery, I don’t mind the players. The fans I could do without.. I just don’t know how a fan base can talk so much shit on a consistent basis, when their team never wins. Ever. You would think they would be a more humble group.

Any team with that big a fan base though, is full of complete douche bags who are just latching on because it’s the cool thing to do: Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox, Cowboys, Patriots, Bulls, Bears, Notre Dame, etc… all shitty fans, and I’m a fan of the Bulls and Bears.

It’s just how it is though, people that don’t really know or care about sports are going to root for the most well known teams, because they are the only teams they hear about. So once you reach that elite level of popularity, you’re fan base becomes annoying as shit to real sports fans.

I’m sure most of you noticed a douchey Sox Fan or two that was never a Sox fan before, around 2005. I still remember how I finished the semester that spring as one of the only guys who would wear a Sox hat, came back after the summer and the entire class would be full of people with Sox gear on. It’s these asshats that make up the part of the Cub fan base that neither Cubs fans who are true baseball fans nor Sox fans really want to be associated with, outside of taking their money at the gate. These are the “frattie Dbag” fans that I think we all hate. Unfortunately for the Cubs they play in a place surrounded by Frattie Dbag types and a hundred bars for them to go to, so they retain the majority of this type of fan.

Similar to 815 though, once 2005 happened, I just didn’t care as much, we had won. They still sucked, that was enough. If they ever do make the World Series, I will quietly suffer and root against them, as I look for a new job in Idaho. Living in the neighborhood after a World Series victory would be unbearable.

Ryan Sandberg, Mark Grace (though i like his work in the booth), Rick Sutcliffe, Greg Maddux, Kerry Wood, Mark Prior and that jagoff Ron Santo can all jump off a bridge.

Glad to hear that I’m not the only one who yells “Cubs suck!” out of my car window at people wearing Cub gear.
Or a Cubs suck! sneeze if I see one in line at the grocery store.
They are the bane of my existence.

you’re a goddamn cubs fan for sure.

the anti-cub sentiment is mostly annoying. living in champaign for almost a quarter of my life and having mostly sox friends means i don’t have to deal with the cub fans as much as many of you, so maybe i’d hate them more if i had to deal with it on a day in, day out basis.

i’d prefer they lose, but am probably more apathetic than anything.

you deserve it!

Effin’ cold (20) but once the waiting was over it was not bad. But because I was so anxious to warm up I blew through the first half at 1:44+ (and had told my wife I’d start at an 8:30 pace). Yeah, Joe, your typed words were on my eyeballs and yet I could NOT slow it down. I was feeling really good, already figuring what I was going to type on this site (Jesse Jackson’s “QUALIFIED!!!” came to miind.) I was rehearsing the whole spiel.

You know the rest. Hit the wall around mile 18. 4:00:00. Not even a “3” at the beginning. I suck. (Still my fastest in 5 years, but so what?) But here’s the funny part. I can barely walk or stand up today (I think I have a stress fracture in my foot, and my lower back is always an adventure), yet my wife says last night “You need to run Tampa (end of next MONTH) and qualify for Boston).” Effin Jews – push, push, push.

if we are ever given the same unholy premise that mets fans got this year in a twins/cubs series, you bet your ass i’d be cheering on the puntofuckers. rather it come from the division and celebrated away from chicago than the alternative.

the Cubs have always been funny. it’s just that Sox fans can laugh without that hint of desperation now.

If neither team wins by 2015, I’d probably start to move back to the old CubSuck mentality

until Rob Mackowiak misplayed 7,000 flyballs in center field in 2006. then i got back to reality. 2005 was a long time ago. As Da Coach once said “you live in the past you die in the past”.

Until I went there to see how they felt about the Milton Bradley – Carlos Silva trade, I’d never really paid much attention to it. What a god awful place.

Half the members of this board would be banned from that soft ass, chemistry loving, stats hating, no profanity message board in a week. Anytime your fan base is happy about trading Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

The delusional perspectives over there is rather vomit-inducing. I’m convinced if any one of them had a terminal disease with no chance of a cure, they would immediate find a positive and elaborate on how it will make them better.

And if you read the commentary (and do a little demographic cross-reference) you’ll see the younger ones tend to be less hateful. It’s the wussification of our Men. Chrissakes, at least HSA still musters up the hate.

to a bar on 127 and ridgeland for game 7 of the cubs vs. marlins…… sports time? game time? something like that…. me and my boy ( who happened to work in the WWE a few years later under the name Armando Alejandro Estrada) were the only people to cheer against the cubs. We just got a bunch of fuck you’s thrown our way… nobody tried anything more than that.

Now they are just another city’s annoying fan base (Seattle, NY, etc). They cant do the “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” game and curse Bill Buckner till they die. Nothing special about em, anymore. Heck- I even like Dennis Leary now!

but a far bigger proportion of their fans are knowledgeable (a lot of them know their stats) about the game, their team, and their rivals. i rooted for them in ’04 because how could you not?? that comeback in the ALCS is the greatest of all time IMO.

Many of you started hating them in the ’90’s, or after 2003, or whatever. In them thar olden days you chose up sides quickly and every passing year just increased the vitriol. If you’re not a lifelong hater, you’re doing it wrong.

just the unemployed.

as anyone who has interacted with people from the south side can attest to, I’m not really sure these folks are fans, at least when compared to the asshole Cub fan in the Ryan Theriot player-T. The few times I’ve gone to games with these folks, it’s consisted of drinking (fair enough) and yelling, not in a “genuine interest in your team” type of way but rather in a “Hey! Look at me!” manner. One of the more awkward and dumb things that usually happens is walking out of US Cellular after a Sox loss and having a dickhead in a green (yeah! Ireland woohoo!) White Sox-T yell, “at least the Cubs lost.”

That’s not to say I’m completely immune or above this. I won’t likely root for the Cubs ever in my lifetime. In any case I try not to pretend that Sox fans are, in the wider sense, any less ‘douchey’ than Cubs fans. It’s just that the Cubs have a lot more “fans” so interaction with them is much more frequent.

there’s your 3rd rec.

i have control over your green status ;P

Good comedy. Now why dont you start crying for editor status? oh wait that been beaten like larry’s dead horse.

While I did the Suburbs to Northside move that almost all white middle class people seem to do at some point, I can’t say it had the same effect on me.

The more Cubs fans I live near, the more I dislike them. When I didn’t live on the North Side, I really didn’t care about the Cubs, they were just there, didn’t think about them either way. Now that I am surrounded by their fans, I really can’t stand them. I hope them only the worst.

watch “Summer Catch” on HBO this month. Freddy Prinze, Jr. and Jessica Biel light up a “baseball” story.

stupid baseball making us go outside and play.

chicago landlord suing milton bradley and BCBs reaction to geovany soto losing 37 pounds.

just like no dh= winning……

i need to move.

but I’m not a fan of red haired broads… wether the curtains match the rug or not.

but you might want to hear it from Tdogg.

the fuck?

Since they are all miserable, angst-ridden douchebags.

i feel like i want to vomit when i get my headache from it.

I think it’s just a fight song thing.

That being said, that song makes me physically ill when I hear it. When I’m bartending and forced to keep the Cubs on, on the occasions that they win at home I’m quick to change the channel before that song starts playing. Not on my watch.