White Sox vs. . . . Everyone (was: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site)

Roy Lamberton rstetson at capps-assoc.com
Tue Jun 27 21:30:19 CDT 2006 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:44 PM
> To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: White Sox vs. . . . Everyone (was: [NU Sports] 
> Mariotti web site)
> 
> 
>  
> <snip>
> As far as your misplaced loyalties, I will refrain from 
> criticizing the masochistic fetish that is being a Cub's fan. 
>  Chicago is slowly discovering that there is a difference 
> between soap opera and baseball.  Though I doubt that those 
> addicted to the Cubs will ever recover, you've already 
> discovered that the next generation of baseball fans prefer the 
>  
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Sox.
> ^^^^
> </snip>
> 
> Yikes!  I hope not!  I'll stage an intervention if I ever see 
> symptoms of that affliction in my kids.  :)  In the case of 
> our very young friend, I'm afraid it is a hereditary 
> condition.  Probably incurable.  I just pray he can grow up 
> to lead an otherwise normal, productive, healthy life....
> 
> FWIW, I consider the Sox to be a JV version of the Yankees 
> (my second most-disliked team!).  Overpaid, boorish players 
> (okay, just about all major leaguers are overpaid, but 
> relatively speaking, I mean); arrogant owners; fans with 
> chips on their shoulders who treat fans of any other team 
> with disdain; etc.
> 
> I don't experience too much pain from being a Cubs fan.  For 
> one thing, they are my secondary team and I have been rooting 
> for them only about half my life, so I don't feel quite the 
> same emotional ups and downs that I do depending on the 
> Twins' performance.  I just enjoy watching the Cubbies and 
> remembering great times at and around Wrigley during college 
> and the couple of years after.  Secondly, I don't let my 
> expectations for the Cubs get too tremendously high--kind of 
> like being an NU fan before 1996.  When I was at NU, I had 
> fun at the football games win or lose, and I didn't get too 
> depressed if we lost because that was what I expected.  
> Conversely, when we won it was a huge thrill.  Since the 1995 
> season and the Rose Bowl (my senior year), however, my 
> expectations have changed, and now I actually get upset when 
> we lose.  You know, I'm not sure which is a healthier mentality.
> :)
> 
> -Joe
> 
> P.S.  I'm sure Jeff knows, but for any wryness-impaired list 
> members, my comments equating being a White Sox fan with 
> having a medical condition are nothing more than a little 
> tongue-in-cheek intra-conference ribbing. Probably.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: 'Ben Adler'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site
> 
> No, Ozzie bought "jaythe[something you can get in trouble for 
> calling someone].com".  :) Honestly, I had heard snippets 
> about a Guillen-Mariotti feud over the past few days but 
> never heard what started it.  I did a little research today 
> and found out.  Two interesting points I noticed from the 
> blog entries (deadspin.com and jaythejoke.com):
> 
> 1)  It seems that most of the public hatred is being directed 
> at Mariotti, when he was the target of Ozzie's outburst.  
> People don't seem to be as riled up about what Ozzie said as 
> I might expect.
> 
> 2)  Here's an excerpt from a Phil Arvia column in the Daily Southtown:
> 
> "In the span of 102 seconds, Guillen leveled 25 words one 
> generally cannot read in a family newspaper at the Sun-Times' 
> Jay Mariotti.
> 
> For those scoring at home, there were 14 variations of the 
> f-word, five s-words, three a-words, a b-word, a G.D. and the 
> straw that broke the camel's back, a three-letter reference 
> either to Mariotti's sexuality or British slang for a cigarette."
> 
> Is no one complaining about the other 24 vulgarities?
> 
> Because the White Sox are the natural enemies of both my AL 
> team (the Twins) and my NL team (the Cubs), of course it 
> follows that they are my least favorite team and I root hard 
> for them to lose all of the time--the single exception being 
> in last season's World Series, in which I wanted them to 
> uphold the honor of the AL Central--and Guillen as manager 
> makes it that much easier.  FWIW, one of my four-year-old 
> son's favorite playmates (probably his favorite) is the 
> four-year-old son of one of our best NU friends (my wife's 
> former apartment-mate and sorority sister) and her husband.  
> Both parents grew up in a town southwest of Chicago, and live 
> in that vicinity now, so unfortunately we only get to see 
> them a couple of times a year.  They came to visit us for a 
> long weekend last month, and my son's friend showed up 
> wearing *gasp* a White Sox cap.  I still let my son play with 
> him, though, and allowed their family to stay at our home 
> anyway, despite some personal discomfort (he did take the hat 
> off inside the house). Just to let you know how magnanimous I 
> can be.  ;)
> 
> -Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Ben Adler
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:46 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site
> 
> Did Ozzie Guillen buy the domain name?
> 
> Jonathan Michael Hawkins <spiritu at northwestern.edu> wrote:  LOL!
> 
> Here's the Trib article that let the city know about this 
> incredibly amusing web site:
> 
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-060
6270164jun27,1
,1156673.story?coll=chi-sportsnew-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


Jonathan

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, MHRJGScott at aol.com wrote:
> Dedicated to the hatred of all things Mariotti: jaythejoke.com

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