After watching the Tampa Bay Rays pummel the Boston Red Sox for the third straight game, I no longer feel so badly about how the Chicago White Sox could summon only one victory against this young team. You can change your socks, but you can't change the Sox, either color, apparently.
We pause for the presidential debate tonight before proceeding to the possible series clincher on Thursday evening. This brings to mind what one prominent White Sox fan had to say over the last couple of years:
In 2007, preceding the World Series, Barack Obama visited Boston. "Welcome to Red Sox nation," said Governor Deval Patrick. Referring to the upcoming World Series here, his own win in 2006 and perhaps to Obama's then lagging performance in the polls, he added, "Around here, we know how to come from behind and win."
"I am a White Sox fan," declared Obama, raising a mass groan.
"You don't want somebody who pretends to be a Red Sox fan to be president of the United States." Obama said he was a "principled" sports fan, a slap, perhaps, at chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, who switched allegiance from Chicago to New York teams when she started her run for the Senate.
This is the stuff that makes a true Leader. Here is what Obama has to say about Chicago baseball, a town dominated by Cub Cult of Media Personality:
"I'm not one of these fair weather fans,'' the junior senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party explained. "You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. Southside."
Before becoming an icon of drunken buffonery with the Chicago Cubs, Harry Caray was the exalted drunken fop for the Chicago White Sox. During the mid-Seventies, Harry was asked by maverick owner Bill Veeck to sing the Seventh Inning Stretch because, in Veeck's words, "Harry was the only person who was a worse singer than me." Here he is, in fine voice. Note the coats in May and September. And at 3:58 in, check out the Softball Uniforms that Veeck had his team wear for a couple of weeks.
YouTube - Harry Caray 1980We pause for the presidential debate tonight before proceeding to the possible series clincher on Thursday evening. This brings to mind what one prominent White Sox fan had to say over the last couple of years:
In 2007, preceding the World Series, Barack Obama visited Boston. "Welcome to Red Sox nation," said Governor Deval Patrick. Referring to the upcoming World Series here, his own win in 2006 and perhaps to Obama's then lagging performance in the polls, he added, "Around here, we know how to come from behind and win."
"I am a White Sox fan," declared Obama, raising a mass groan.
"You don't want somebody who pretends to be a Red Sox fan to be president of the United States." Obama said he was a "principled" sports fan, a slap, perhaps, at chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, who switched allegiance from Chicago to New York teams when she started her run for the Senate.
This is the stuff that makes a true Leader. Here is what Obama has to say about Chicago baseball, a town dominated by Cub Cult of Media Personality:
"I'm not one of these fair weather fans,'' the junior senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party explained. "You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. Southside."
Before becoming an icon of drunken buffonery with the Chicago Cubs, Harry Caray was the exalted drunken fop for the Chicago White Sox. During the mid-Seventies, Harry was asked by maverick owner Bill Veeck to sing the Seventh Inning Stretch because, in Veeck's words, "Harry was the only person who was a worse singer than me." Here he is, in fine voice. Note the coats in May and September. And at 3:58 in, check out the Softball Uniforms that Veeck had his team wear for a couple of weeks.
Finally, here is a really rich, really funny rivalry gone over the top between a couple of Cubs and White Sox fans:
Rosenblog Chicago Tribune Blog
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