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Sox fan shows displeasure with Cubs at workplace

Ok, I just had to rant this to everyone. I work in an office/warehouse and our HR department has decided to have a Cubs Spirit Day tomorrow. It asks that those who work tomorrow to support the Cubs by wearing red and blue or things such as Cubs t-shirts and jerseys. A company wide e-mail was sent out, and a flyer was posted next to the time clock by our front door.

After I finished my lunch today I walk past time time clock to see the flyer vandalized. Someone scribbled in blue pen over the Cubs logo and the Division Champs logo, and also crumpled it all up and left it hanging on the cork board. Seriously, how pathetic is this? Note also, that when the White Sox got to the playoffs in 2005, the same spirit day was observed for them (I showed my spirit by wearing a Cubs hat, shirt, and even went as far as refusing to wear white socks that day, instead cubbie blue socks). When this Sox day was held here a few years ago did anyone screw around with that flyer? No. Not at all.

Who is really showing offf the stereotype classlessness today? I did find out it was in fact a White Sox fan who did it, and left the following post it note next to the crumpled flyer: "The vandalism displayed here is why Sox fans get a bad rep. I didnt know we had children working here."

End rant.

-Andrew

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And yet further proof on why Sox fans....
can be called classless, trashy, etc...

I grew up on the South Side, but fortunately had an uncle who kept me from ever becoming a Sux fan by taking me to Cubs games growing up.

Your dept. should fire whoever did that!

Missing Da Cubbies from NYC!

by dacubsfan76 on Oct 2, 2007 3:34 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Andrew...
It is a happy time for Cub fans, dont let the Sox fans get to you.

This kinda stuff should be expected from Sox fans because of their infatuation with our stadium, our fans, and our team.

Enjoy the playoffs and forget about the Sox fans...they are at home watching us play.

Go CUBS.

"I love this world. I hope hell is as much fun!"

by HIGGY on Oct 2, 2007 3:36 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Oh totally....
Dont get me wrong, I could care less about that team and their fans, it just really got me that here someone had to go and screw with that flyer. Im sure I will see people wearing their World Champions shirts tomorrow that dont like the Cubs but heck thats fine, like I said I dressed all Blue on White Sox day.

Tomorrow (late) night is a big day, cant wait!! Go Cubs!!

by AndHart120 on Oct 2, 2007 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good deal...
It is totally there mentality.

One of my good friends is Sox fan, and the year they one, right after the final pitch was thrown in the series, my phone rang, and of course it was him.  I ignored it because seriously, why are you calling me, go party with your Sox fans, but his first thought was to call a Cubs fan and rub it in.  Just stupid.

Trust me the players are annoyed by the Sox fans as much as we are.  Last year my first time throwing was down at the Cell and there were plenty of grumblings among the players about how annoying the fans were and the stupid things they would yell to the players.  It was pretty annoying, because it never stopped.

"I love this world. I hope hell is as much fun!"

by HIGGY on Oct 2, 2007 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

My brother in law
is a Sox fan. Well, when they are winning (isn;t that tyoical). Anyway, he sends us a Xmas card in '05 with the WS trophy on the front of the card and knowing who it came from, I simply threw it in the trasah, not even opening it up. And another thing, he and his wife did the same thiing, call us up when they would win a post season series. I told him how much of a loser he was to do that and not celebrate his team. If teh Cubs win any series, I ALWAYS call my Mom and brother to celebrate with me!
"WGN, Channel 9 Cubs Baseball, Excitingly, Importantly, Dramatically Yours." except in the post season - Thank you MLB!

by BigJohnAZ on Oct 2, 2007 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

family reunions must be a monster, dude ..
.. ewww ...

My SIL is a Sox fan and thinks we're all traitors because we lived in the South Side for a time before we moved to the Lynwood area and rooted for the Cubs. But she's diplomatic enough to bite her tongue ..

Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!

by cubnational on Oct 3, 2007 1:20 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Typical Classless White Sox Fans
These are the same people who will attack an umpire, first base coach and crap on anything Cubs.

We are talking about a level Below Dog Crap and above pond scum.

God Im now pissed off after reading this.

GO CUBS!

GO CUBS GO! Hey Chicago whatdya say the Cubs are going to win today!

by Galvan316 on Oct 2, 2007 3:37 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

That right there
is a reason why they are called the White Sux fans. No class at all. Just consider your self lucky to be a Cubs fan.

GO CUBS!!!

Shawn Johnson, Des Moines, IA, worlds greatest gymnast. 2007 All Around World Champ. GO SHAWN!!!!

by sue369 on Oct 2, 2007 3:37 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

My family has lived on the south side of Chicago
and had to put up with this kind of crap for decades.

My dad soooo enjoyed the ChiSox/Cubs series this year - but he never gloated, never harassed, just simply showed up at work in his non-garish Cubbie polo.

Contrast this with when the ChiSox won the WS. His co-workers instead of reveling in the fact that they had a great season decided to use all their energy to berate Cubs fans. In success or victory I've found few ChiSox fans who handle either with grace.

To the 23% of ChiSox fans out there who are cool - I am sorry to have not met you to help balance this opinion.

'07 Postseason: Bears, Bulls... Cubs!!!

by stelmodad on Oct 2, 2007 4:12 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

the mike guy
from the "my hero the goat" is a Sox fan.

Nuff said.

Kerry Wood for closer!

by drewishdrewid on Oct 2, 2007 4:49 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

It's everywhere
Everyone refuses to generalize and always makes their comments dancing around the issue but I'm sick of that. I have yet to meet 1 Sox fan that isnt like the guy that messed w/the flyer. So in my personal opinion, all Sox fans have some of this in them. And also in my opinion, I think it comes from the jealousy and envy of knowing that they will always be 2nd class citizens in a first class city like Chicago. The Cubs and their fans will ALWAYS, no matter how many championships are won on the south side, be the number 1 baseball team in the city. Sox fans don't realize how they go out and give their team a bad rep. I think us Cubs fans do a much better job of representing our team and our history, through thick and thin. You never heard Bleed Sox Black have you? Cuz it just doesnt happen. Go Cubs!
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." -Jason Kidd

by tony412 on Oct 2, 2007 4:59 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Theyre Trash
I live on the south side in the suburbs about 25 minutes from midway,theyre so classless and ignorant,Its just unreal. I walk into a bar a couple months ago, and 2 guys just all of a sudden start saying " Get the hell out of here,What the F*** kind of jersey is that?" and so on,and thats not even the beginning of the the things I see and hear out here. How can you jsut say stuff like that when you don't even know the person and just a random person you see for the first time? They are so obsessed with hating the Cubs,caring more about us than their own team.Go on any of their boards right now and you can see that 98% of it is all Cubs talk.I love wearing the Cubbie blue out here though because it pisses them off so bad inside.

by PrimeTime on Oct 2, 2007 5:02 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Too bad
Don't let it get to you.  I think you might be overreacting a little bit to this.  Next time just ignore it and act like you don't care.  Then it will stop.  Or let us just win it all and then they'll shut up.  

by ak123 on Oct 2, 2007 5:14 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Didja ever thunk ..
.. it might have been a Baby Back fan whodunit?

... NOT ....

I think the Sox fan who likely did this has serious issues and needs therapy. They are probably the same loser who smears his boogers on the bathroom stall and after sex with his girlfriend tells his other girlfriend on his cell "baby, you my only one .. "

Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!

by cubnational on Oct 2, 2007 5:26 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

And yet...
...you wore Cubs stuff on Sox spirit day?  What kind of douchebaggery is that?

by jolietconvict on Oct 2, 2007 8:42 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I dont support...
..the Sox so I wore cubs.

We had a Bears day last year, and a few people wore Packers. No big deal. But drawing all over an announcement flyer and crinkling it all up in a ball is quite different as most seem to agree.

by AndHart120 on Oct 2, 2007 10:44 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bit less childish wouldn't you say?
He said he didn't care what they wore, just to act the way they did is idiotic...as most Sox fans are.

As for my experience...I work with 2 Sox fan chicks one of whom HAD to go with her Cub fan husband to a game recently.  Got 2 row behind the plate and what did she have to say?

I have a list of complaints she said:

1. The fans all cheered after the first out of the game.  You would have thought they won the game.
(SHAME on us for cheering!)

  1. Some woman on her cell phone too much (Okay, I hate this too)
  2. No African American people (in her general area...as if that is the Cubs or the fans fault).
  3. Some guy tried to high five her after the Cubs won and when she ignored him, he shoved her!  (Had to laugh a bit inside and yet I can see being pissed)
Number 1 was my favorite.  I asked if she ever cheered that way when the Sox were winning and what did she say?

NO.  What a fan!

MMMMM...Fernandos fajitas and margaritas

by Kinky Reggae on Oct 2, 2007 8:55 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Sox fans are incapable of making
rational decisions, which rendures there small primate brain useless.
GO CUBS GO! Hey Chicago whatdya say the Cubs are going to win today!

by Galvan316 on Oct 2, 2007 9:59 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

"sox fans are trash"
Jesus christ. Sports fans must have missed out on reading this book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book

At various times, at various blogs, I've been informed that Cardinal fans, cub fans, brewer fans, astros fans, sox fans, padre fans etc. etc. are all trashy or classless, or whatever.

While I suppose you can argue that fans of different sports are different (ie polo fans are more likely to wear a monacle than hockey fans), but baseball fans are baseball fans. This whole "lack of class" whine is pretty boring.

by Thelonious on Oct 3, 2007 2:53 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Must not know any true
south side baseball fans then.

Lucky you!

MMMMM...Fernandos fajitas and margaritas

by Kinky Reggae on Oct 3, 2007 8:27 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Yeah seriously Thelonious
Maybe in your own primp and proper world, Everyone gets along, theres no wars, no fighting and hell the Cubs have even won the World Series.

But lets welcome you back to our world in 2007.

Most White Sox fans hate the Cubs, want nothing more then to crap on anything Cubs related.

If you dont like the fact that some people here are anti-White Sox, then maybe you should focus your attention to the ballclub that plays at US Suck field.

GO CUBS GO! Hey Chicago whatdya say the Cubs are going to win today!

by Galvan316 on Oct 3, 2007 9:32 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

lol
what the hell does primp mean in that context?

I hate to sound all severe by bringing this up, but you do realize that hate groups essentially use some of the the same rationalization as you people. Take a bad subgroup and extrapolate that into your view of the entire group as a whole. Obviously, I'm not equating you guys with hate groups...merely pointing out that you're roughly that intelligent.

I guess I'm just suprised that actual adults completely forget themself when it comes to this sport, and act like fucking 9 year olds on the playground.

I do enjoy that you equate my feelings on this issue to my supposed worldview where there are "no wars" and "no fighting". Sure, that would be nice, but I'm pretty sure my original post was referring to petty dumbass adults who are completely unable to put sports into perspective.

The readership at this site continues to go downhill, I can see.

by Thelonious on Oct 3, 2007 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

They REALLY are trash
Try living out here on the south side..I gurantee you would change you opinion.Anything About you being a Cubs fans or anything Cubs related is put down and the negativity you get is unreal.Trust me,I go through it everyday.They are so obsessed with the Cubs now wanting them to do bad they actually go on the D-Backs and before the Brewers web sites and trying to form anti Cub alligences with them and also have a section on their web site dedicated to critcizing everything Cubs related.They care more about hating our team than anything with their own.And when people swear and say bad things about you in person when they dont even kno you and just ebcause ur a Cubs fan..Thats crossing the line.Theyre garbage.

by PrimeTime on Oct 3, 2007 10:12 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

It just doesnt make sense...
They won their World Series, leave us alone.

I really do think its a jealousy cause no matter if we win it all or go 0-162, we still get a lot more attention than they ever will. Maybe the fact that a World Series win still didnt give them King of the City status just makes them hate us even more than pre 2005.

by AndHart120 on Oct 3, 2007 11:37 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

In four weeks we'll see Exhibit 'B' as evidence...
...to support everything that's been posted here.

Exhibit 'A' happened in 2005.  I live a few blocks away from Wrigley Field and was watching the World Series at home.  After the final out was recorded and the White Sox won, I turned to my girlfriend and said "15 minutes.  In 15 minutes, Sox fans will be honking and yelling and driving like maniacs around Wrigley."

So we went out for a walk.  I was wrong - it was more like 30-35 minutes before they showed up.  My girlfriend (a true Cubs fan) said they must have got lost on the way (pretty funny, eh?  That's why I love her so).  

They honked and yelled and pretty much acted like idiots for at least an hour or so.  Cubs security was there (the bleacher expansion project had already begun) and they had to dissuade more than a few drunken idiots from trying to get into Wrigley.

So what's Exhibit 'B' you ask?  Well, after Soriano catches a short fly ball down the left field line for the final out earning the Cubs a World Championship, I can almost guarantee you that 35th and Shields will be one of the quietest, loneliest, most desolate places in Chicago all night long...

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Oct 3, 2007 11:15 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I agree
If we win....who would want to go down there and do that?? Even if they didnt have to fear getting shot.

by AndHart120 on Oct 3, 2007 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

ballhawk, that was immortal prose ..
.. with an economy of words, you've described EXACTLY what it will be like around that nasty place.

There will be an awful smell also, and it won't be from the winos living under the tracks either.

FWIW, my brother is a firefighter who used to live at a great apartment in the area. If you were there, you could sit on his toilet, look at the window and see Smellular Field. How apropo ..

Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!

by cubnational on Oct 3, 2007 1:27 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hmm
"So what's Exhibit 'B' you ask?  Well, after Soriano catches a short fly ball down the left field line for the final out earning the Cubs a World Championship, I can almost guarantee you that 35th and Shields will be one of the quietest, loneliest, most desolate places in Chicago all night long..."

Isn't that already the case 81 times a year?

GO CUBS GO! Hey Chicago whatdya say the Cubs are going to win today!

by Galvan316 on Oct 3, 2007 12:18 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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