[NU Sports] Re: White Sox vs. . . . Everyone

Wed Jun 28 10:02:36 CDT 2006

If there is a worse announcing team than the one the White Sox have, I 
don't know who it is.  They are the most biased announcers that I have 
ever heard and I've heard Rizzuto, Bob Prince and a few other homers in 
my time.  I sort of liked watching the White Sox do well last year but 
couldn't stand the announcers so would hit the mute button.

John DeGroat

Joe Thiegs wrote:

> 
><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-0606270164jun27,1
>,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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