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Andrew Greeley at it again...

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What is it with Andrew Greeley?  Why does he feel compelled to smear and put down Sox fans? 

When the Sox won the World Series Greeley wrote an ugly, hateful smear on Sox fans.  Now he's at it again.  This time it's a gratuitous smear of Sox fans.

Who are those who reject compromise of a useless and criminally deadly war like Iraq? They are the blusterers, members of "veteran's organizations," mountain folk, crackers, West Texans, blue collar workers, evangelical clergy, neo-cons, Republicans, white ethnics, Sox fans...

Here's a heaping helping of the smears, stereotypes and lies spread by Greeley less than 3 years ago:

It's not as though the White Sox are a real Chicago franchise like the Cubs or the Bears or Notre Dame...the behavior of White Sox fans, an intolerable bunch of human beings when baseball is the subject (who beat up on wives of opposing players)...My seminary classmates who were Sox fans were insufferable on the days they won and we lost. More mature than they were, we Cub fans felt no need to cackle triumphantly when the Sox lost...

So, let's see Greeley thinks Cubbies fans are superior to Sox fans and he demonstrates this by stereotyping and spreading ugly smears.  Really, "father," WWJD?

 

 

 

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How dare he trash the Cubs...

….oh wait this is about the Sox.

I must be at the wrong place.

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip

by Hammer on Aug 21, 2008 7:32 PM CDT   0 recs

and that makes it right?

Anyways….I wont fanpost-police.

Ive appreciate what youve written in the past.

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip

by Hammer on Aug 21, 2008 7:36 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Right, then?

“White Sox baseball has a new sound” fanpost by “Hammer”

“Danny Richar who?” fanpost by “Hammer” about a Sox trade

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 7:42 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

LMAO

I trashed Steve Stone because I cant stand him. Then you posted another link to a poster call “The Congo Hammer” – Dont know who that is. Sorry bud.

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip

by Hammer on Aug 21, 2008 7:44 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

OOPS...

…it came up when I searched in your user activity, it even says, “Results 1 – 6 of 6 for "sox” in FanPosts by Hammer"

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 7:47 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

all good

….(shhh…I still dont like Stoney)

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip

by Hammer on Aug 21, 2008 7:50 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Do you have ANY idea

how creepy stalker that sounds?

I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 22, 2008 1:43 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Funny...

… no one here complained when people have searched my comments and posted about them. Nor did you complain when a certain member here repeatedly posted personal information about me.

Let’s face it, people can be hypocritical and don’t like being exposed. If it’s as dark as you make it sound, then the “search” feature should be removed.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 6:55 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

How many Cubs comments on Sox blogs?

Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow from the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind...
When my last remains go flying over the left field wall, I'll bid the bleacher bums adieu,
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue. --Steve Goodman

by NotSure on Aug 22, 2008 12:59 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Shouldn't you take this up

with a blog that cares? Or even better, with his EMPLOYER.

You do realize that you drive up the number of “sox-related posts” on this site every time you come around.

Essentially, you’re a spammer.

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 21, 2008 7:53 PM CDT   0 recs

The Sox discussion here...

… goes on in my absence. When the Sox lost a series in KC a few weeks ago there were 50+ Sox posts here and none by me.

These comments by Greeley betray his words and the comments frequently made here about Cubs fans.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 7:59 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

dood.

get over yourself. I don’t even know what that last sentence is supposed to mean.

Wow. 50+ Sox posts? That’s like ten percent of ONE GAME THREAD post. Give me a break.

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 21, 2008 8:18 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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"I guess you had some lean years, and didnt have to beat it hard" - Craig Sager

"Soriano deep to left!! THAT BALL'S GOOOONE!! A HOME RUN!! OHHH BABY!!" -Len Kasper 8/06/08

SORIANO WATCH: AVG: .293 22 HR 61 RBI

by Galvan316 on Aug 21, 2008 8:14 PM CDT   0 recs

that would be very zen

if it weren’t so ridiculous.

Go peddle your inferiority complex elsewhere. If you wanna talk about BASEBALL, then fine. But that’s not your bag.

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 21, 2008 8:41 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Remember Greeley's comments...

… when you get ready to talk about Sox fans always bashing the Cubs.

Here the Cubs have the best record in the NL. They’ll be going to the post-season (barring a monumental choke) and he’s still getting jabs in at Sox fans, in an column completely unrelated to the Sox.

For all Greeley’s and others claims of the superiority of Cubs fans, his words prove to be much like the group he loves to smear.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:26 PM CDT   0 recs

Me neither.

I thought he was a Catholic priest. Who am I thinkin’ of?

Yes, sir!

by dat cubfan daver on Aug 21, 2008 8:34 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Priest & ...

a flame throwing columnist, you know, tossing out smears and slurs just like Jesus did.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:39 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, yeah...

…I guess I do know who he is. Well, I don’t know what to say – he comes off as so batsh*t crazy in that column that I wouldn’t even bother getting offended.

Yes, sir!

by dat cubfan daver on Aug 21, 2008 8:42 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Remember those sagacious words...

… when Kass is getting bashed next time he comments about the Cubs.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:50 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Will do.

And thank you for using the word “sagacious.”

Yes, sir!

by dat cubfan daver on Aug 21, 2008 9:52 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I see this phrase
…tossing out smears and slurs just like Jesus did.

and I think,
please elaborate…

"Why does that man drop his club before he runs? I would bring it with me." ~Stewie Griffin

by Goodie1969 on Aug 22, 2008 9:07 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

And then I think

nevermind, I’m sure I don’t even want to know.

"Why does that man drop his club before he runs? I would bring it with me." ~Stewie Griffin

by Goodie1969 on Aug 22, 2008 9:08 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

WWJD

… I don’t believe he’d post smears like Greeley revels in.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 9:23 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

"Go west young man". Who am I thinking of?

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun

by Bump Bailey on Aug 21, 2008 9:57 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Horace Greeley

"Your eyes can decieve you. Don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first sabermetrician...

by Curtain Jerker on Aug 21, 2008 10:46 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Ahhh...thanks.

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun

by Bump Bailey on Aug 21, 2008 11:20 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Me neither

but I really don’t care what some guy says about the Sox unless is has to do with the Cubs. This thread really doesn’t belong here. I won’t jump on you as I normally enjoy doing but you have to admit, this belongs at SSSox, not here. Why do we care?

Kwa...Ki...Sur...Pee...Nee...Ku?

by Kinky Reggae on Aug 22, 2008 8:08 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

DrCrawdad...

… though I do respect you personally… I’m not quite sure why you felt you had to post this here. You do know how stuff like this just incites Cubs fans.

I’m not sure why Andrew Greeley felt the need to write that, either. It’s just stupid to try to incite people, which is all that was about.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Aug 21, 2008 8:35 PM CDT   0 recs

If it incites Cubs fans...

… how do you think Sox fans feel?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:37 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Ask them about it

"I guess you had some lean years, and didnt have to beat it hard" - Craig Sager

"Soriano deep to left!! THAT BALL'S GOOOONE!! A HOME RUN!! OHHH BABY!!" -Len Kasper 8/06/08

SORIANO WATCH: AVG: .293 22 HR 61 RBI

by Galvan316 on Aug 21, 2008 8:39 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

So, you're here...

… how do you feel about Greeley’s comments?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:40 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Sir

I am alot of things, Somepeople think im funny, some people cant stand me (thats fine) and think im a huge jerk.

But theres one constant among that.

Never call me a White Sux fan.

"I guess you had some lean years, and didnt have to beat it hard" - Craig Sager

"Soriano deep to left!! THAT BALL'S GOOOONE!! A HOME RUN!! OHHH BABY!!" -Len Kasper 8/06/08

SORIANO WATCH: AVG: .293 22 HR 61 RBI

by Galvan316 on Aug 21, 2008 8:43 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Never did.

You’re a Cubbie fan.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 21, 2008 8:48 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

The point is

and unfortunately you don’t get it, is that why aren’t you talking about this with other Sox fans?

Oh yeah, that’s right. You aren’t a Sox fan. You’re just a Cub hater. So why are you even upset by this?

Borowy . . .Sutcliffe . . .Harden?

by Josh77 on Aug 21, 2008 9:11 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Just to clarify Josh

and this doesn’t apply to all of them but certainly a majority; White Sox fan = Cub hater. So if he’s a White Sox fan, there’s a good chance he is a Cub hater. They’re taught that way on the South side.

So many of them are almost as obsessed with seeing the Cubs lose as their team win. Instead of them concentrating on what the Twinkies, Cats and Tribe are doing, they’re thinking about the Cubs.

Do Cubs fans do that same? Hell no. We’re thinking about the Brewers and Cards, sometimes the ‘stros when it’s not the Cubs themselves.

Yeah, I care about what the White Sox do 6 games a season (guess which 6); the other 156, I could not care less.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Aug 22, 2008 7:05 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

He's a troll

.. plain and simple.

by 60613 on Aug 22, 2008 6:57 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

And this is about the Cubs how????

Hey Sox troll. The Sox have their own blog. This is completely off-topic here and veers into the political, even.

http://www.southsidesox.com/

You keep arguing that Cub fans are obsessed about the Sox, but you are so
freaking obsessed about the Cubs you don’t even care about the White Sox anymore. Do White Sox fans hate you or something? You seem to want to have nothing to do with them.

You must lead a very sad and pathetic life that you get your jollies posting this stuff on a Cubs board. Maybe Andrew Greeley will pray for you.

Borowy . . .Sutcliffe . . .Harden?

by Josh77 on Aug 21, 2008 9:08 PM CDT   0 recs

Actually

I never got the feeling they like him very much but that might just be me.

Kwa...Ki...Sur...Pee...Nee...Ku?

by Kinky Reggae on Aug 22, 2008 8:11 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I see nothing wrong with this Sun-Times article.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Aug 21, 2008 9:13 PM CDT   0 recs

heck

he mentions the Sox ONCE. He’s not even talking about BASEBALL!

And maybe he means the Red Sox. :P

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 21, 2008 9:32 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Is this Bleed Cubbie Blue?

or am i in the wrong place?

i swore i had the right address…

by DartmouthCubsFan on Aug 21, 2008 9:30 PM CDT   0 recs

four of the first ten posts on that page are about the Red Sox (when they refer to the "Sox").

At least one other is about how he doesn’t understand why Cubs fans don’t like the White Sox.

All of his posts are about baseball when NONE OF YOURS are.

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 21, 2008 9:51 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

You are obsessed w/ searching people's comments

can you NOT be a creepy stalker for 10 secs? Gah!!

I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 22, 2008 1:45 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

If you take away his white whale, what will Ahab have left?

Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow from the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind...
When my last remains go flying over the left field wall, I'll bid the bleacher bums adieu,
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue. --Steve Goodman

by NotSure on Aug 22, 2008 1:52 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Relevant

So, you don’t think it’s relevant that the very thing that, for example, a poster below, says about me he’s done repeatedly on this site? How is that NOT relevant?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 6:57 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

You really need to get a hobby Doc.

As i read down in your comments, you just seem more and more bitter and angry. Bottom line, none of us wrote this article so why tell us about it? The Sox are in first place, enjoy that for a change.

Kwa...Ki...Sur...Pee...Nee...Ku?

by Kinky Reggae on Aug 22, 2008 8:12 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

did you even look at the posts....

because none of them address the White Sox, most of them refer to the RED SOX.

How about you take the time to actually do some research in what your stupid search function generated.

 with the exception of posts made in JANUARY after the White Sox acquired Swisher, I’ve referenced the White SOX ONCE in a BCB post in the last 8 months and the reference was how I don’t understand why Cubs fans are pre-occupied with the White Sox.

by DartmouthCubsFan on Aug 22, 2008 12:09 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

So what?

It seems that this Greeley guy is kind of an ass…why do you let it bother you?

If he’s a columnist, then he’s doing his job in getting you to react to his column.

And as for what he said in 2005, who cares? I know about 50 White Sox fans, and I don’t think any of them stopped celebrating their Series win because Andrew Greeley wrote some words.

How is this relevant?

"Your eyes can decieve you. Don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first sabermetrician...

by Curtain Jerker on Aug 21, 2008 10:50 PM CDT   0 recs

This is the 'inferiority complex'

that seems to prevail, and there is absolutely no reason for White Sox fans to feel like this.

Why is anything this guy says relevant to — anybody? And, why is this posted here?
Stop being so sensitive.

Padres fans have the same attitude v. the Dodgers. And guess what — the Dodgers fans don’t give a damn about what the Padres fans think.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Aug 21, 2008 11:25 PM CDT   0 recs

Pot, kettle...

Why were you posting purely antagonistic messages at SouthSide Sox in ’05? Jealousy? Envy? Hate? Inferiority complex?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 12:39 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

He's got you there

Not seeing any response…good research, Dr.

by lamentir on Aug 22, 2008 11:26 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Mirror, mirror...
Stop being so sensitive. - San Diego Smooth Jazz, August 22, 2008

Funny, you’ve been hurt by John Kass at least two times, once your sensitivities were so offended that you wrote him and posted a “fanpost” about it here and then a 6 months later you were still moaning about Kass.

So, when you tell me not to be so sensitive, is it from the voice of experience that you speak?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 1:10 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

creepy...

Did you just discover the “search” feature recently?

The only stats I care about are the ones on the back of a baseball card

by carmen_fanzone on Aug 22, 2008 8:02 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Difference is

we post things like this HERE, not at a Sox blog. You REALLY don’t get this?

Kwa...Ki...Sur...Pee...Nee...Ku?

by Kinky Reggae on Aug 22, 2008 8:13 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

he really doesn't.

but that’s ok. Whenever words are spoken about the Sox (could be Red, could be White), HAVE NO FEAR! DR. CRAWDAD WILL BE THERE… to bitch and moan about… well, we’re not entirely sure what, but he won’t stop…

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 22, 2008 9:49 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Tell me about it!

Kwa...Ki...Sur...Pee...Nee...Ku?

by Kinky Reggae on Aug 22, 2008 11:10 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Is SD jazz

going to respond? I’m interested. Right up.

by lamentir on Aug 22, 2008 12:48 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

You obviously

have more time on your hands than most people are allowed to have.

Look, there was one snide response. I take responsibility for that. Why don’t you post the ‘history lesson’ I wrote on that other site. I’m not going to. I personally don’t have time for such nonsense. You seem to have some weird obsession…which presents itself in your continued posting on this site.

Research is one thing…but you seem to have gone a bit farther than that. The post that follows this by carmenfanzone uses an appropriate word to describe your actions.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Aug 22, 2008 1:27 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

The San Diego Spin Room
You obviously have more time on your hands than most people are allowed to have.

I guess you had time on your hands too back when you were posting your snide remarks on SouthSideSox.

Look, there was one snide response. I take responsibility for that.

 
And that’s simply not true that it was “one snide response.” Your very first post was a dig at Sox fans but you went on from there. And I’ve brought this out before.

In that former discussion, after exposing your misleading description of your posts on SouthSideSox, I asked you this and I repeat:

Cubbie fans, even here, often talk about a Sox fan inferiority complex. Well, what do these psychologist wannabes have to say about Cubbie fans who perpetually feel compelled to say and post ugly smears on Sox fans? How insecure are these people who feel they have to regularly put-down another group of people?

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 7:49 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Do you ever calm down?

You are hung up a 2005 remark. It’s 2008. Move on with your life, sir.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Aug 22, 2008 9:25 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Smooth move...

I understand your desire to move on from discussing your “snide” postS on SouthSideSox. Now you admit they were “snide” and not merely “historical” comments, as you described them previously.

Clearly, you were upset by Kass’ silly comments for months. Now after attacking me personally (again) you’re telling me to move on. Interesting.

by DrCrawdad on Aug 22, 2008 9:37 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

There is a damn historical comment there

For the young Sox fans of 2005, I went back and discussed what it was like for the Sox back when I was growing up, and attending games on BOTH sides of town.

Go find it. I have no real reason to do so. It’s amongst the 7 comments you have there, as opposed to the nearly 14-hundred comments, you, a Sox fan have posted here.

Uh, I kind of don’t really think about John Kass. You are the individual that dredges up material that’s years old, sir.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Aug 22, 2008 9:47 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

you got a point here, son?

cause right now, you look like seven shades of silly.

Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!

by drewishdrewid on Aug 23, 2008 9:08 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs