Some Cubs-Sox conclusions

...their jealousy of all things Cub overrides their focus on playing winning baseball.

But they do appear very professional. This is glaringly apparent when you contrast them with Dusty’s Cubs teams, which seemed to do almost everything the wrong way. Lou’s boys have a very even keel to them, which to me explains why they come from behind to win so many games. They do not panic while they still have outs left.

What is truly amazing to me is that they feed off the unbelievable crowd energy at Wrigley without getting too geeked up at the same time. Just calm precision and fundamental soundness. Take what the other team gives you.

who are more interested in the Cubs losing than the Sox winning and in feeling superior to Cub fans. Fact is there are some very good players on the Sox, there are some great Sox fans who are intelligent and who don’t troll here. It is a silly rivalry when you don’t even play each other except 6 times a years because Bud’s an idiot.

Ozzie is Ozzie but he is no Al Lopez, now there was a classy guy.

White Sox are about to implode. Ozzie Guillen is another bad word or two away from being fired. Their pitching is good but is starting to wear down from having to carry too much of the burden. Paul Konerko is in rapid decline phase. Jim Thome has nothing left. Nick Swisher is severely overrated. The minor league system is bare.

...and there’s just as likely to be obnoxious fans on both sides of town.

That being said, Crawdad’s profile says he has more than 1,100 comments on BCB…

...and 7 on the Sox blog.

I’m not saying that’s the sum total of your Sox love, Crawdad, but you’ll live longer and enjoy life more if you stop trying to “expose” every dumb comment made by a Cubs fan and concentrate on supporting your own (talented and competitive) team. Take it from someone who used to get worked up about Cardinal Nation, it ain’t worth it.

By the way, this is my first post here and I’ve enjoyed reading this blog for the last couple of months. Go Cubs!

... of an article like this in the Tribune.

...you can’t get a single decent seat at face value, what you can’t get are three or four consecutive decent seats unless you sit in the 500 level(which let’s face it is a crap shoot) or in the non-drink family section(which is also a crap shoot, foul pole, etc.). I’ve got a wife and 2 kids to think about every time I’m looking to entertain myself. The other points you bring up, 3$ hot dogs, $5 beer are huge profit centers for the organization as well as with any team. What I find offensive is that they looked at other areas to generate revenue and decided to develope a huge conflict of interest by setting up their own company to sell tickets way above the price listed on a ticket. I call someone like Eric Soderholm an Entrepreneur, I call Wrigley Field Premium Tickets a Crooked Enterprise. If notice how many tickets they are setting aside to themselves you’ll see they’re making money by artificially creating demand. That’s not to say that without WFPT their wouldn’t be demand but at least it would create a more level playing field.

as far as im concerned, Dr. Crawdad isn’t one of em. Quite frankly, there are plenty of people who post in the normal game threads on a daily basis that are more inflammatory than Dr. Crawdad ever has been. He wanders over around the Cubs-Sox series and generally is nowhere to be seen for the rest of the season.

This diary is a good example of why I don’t look forward to this time of the year. Too much b.s back and forth between both sides of town.

What bothers me about the Sox really has nothing to do with the fans, but it has everything to do with the constant pattern of unprofessionalism that gets displayed over there. It’s the “tone from the top” (perhpas not as high as Riensdorf) and it’s evidenced in so many ways:

1) The “Happy Anniversay” comments from Kenny Williams – Why would a GM even get involved in a comment like that? Doesn’t he have far bigger issues to worry about? Why would he intentionally poison a relationship that he may need to work with in the future?

2) The “Blow up Doll” incident – Behavior like that has no place in a professional locker room. If they wanted to do that behind closed doors, that’s up to them, but many people have to use that same locker room to conduct their business. A locker room is not the property of the players. It’s the property of a Major League franchise. If the players wanted to own and maintain their own private clubhouse, then so be it. They can set their own rules.

3) The televison broadcast team. Hawk and DJ are not professional journalists. They are ex jocks who, in my opinion, try to give the impression to the viewer that they are in the dugout with the team. That’s fine if that’s the way they want to portray the broadcast, but it’s not a journalistically professional way to do a broadcast. The constant complaining that they do about umpires is boring and juvenile.

Of course, if we were to think about it, there would be so many more examples of unprofessional behavior from that organization. As a Chicagoan, it’s something that’s a source of shame. It’s kind of like “Otis the Drunk” except without any of the funny parts.

Personally, I think Guillen is crazy like a fox. He knows exactly what he is doing. He might be an inflammtory douche, but I’m convinced every word out of his mouth is thought of in advance and has an intended purpose.

I want to puke everytime he interjects the phrase “our guys” or “our ballclub” into the dialogue. Or calls every ballplayer on the Sox by their nickname. Your the frickin play-by-play man for crying out loud.

A loudmouth laughingstock of a Venezuelan who will be gone in a couple years.

I really don’t follow anything White Sox related now or have in the past. I can’t honestly tell you if Ozzie was an opinionated loudmouth as a player. He obviously times his rants when his team is playing poorly and takes the heat off of them and puts it on himself. He knows it, the sportswriters know it, EVERYONE knows it. Eventually, this tactic will wear thin and have no impact, kind of crying wolf one too many times. At that time, maybe White Sux management will decide whether they still want him around to manage. So far, he can get away with it, but I see a day, not to far away, when the curtain falls on his act and he’s gone, to turn a Hawkism.

... and he proves that he and Sox fans would rather see the Cubbies lose than the Sox win.

...I’d rather lose against the Cubs than the Minnesota Twins,” said Guillen, sitting in the visitor’s dugout prior to Tuesday night’s Interleague opener at Dodger Stadium. “I know it’s about pride, and I want Chicago people to know there’s not a bigger fan than Ozzie Guillen with the Chicago White Sox.

“There’s nobody who hurts more on this club than me. Besides, I’m the manager and love this franchise. The people have to understand, they kicked our butts and did a lot of things better than we did. They did a lot of things well, and that’s why they swept us.”

This quote was on WhiteSox.com but not on ChicagoSports.com, hum…