Is the Sox-Cubs rivalry the same for non-Chicagoans?

[witesoxfan]

People within the Chicagoland area don't fully appreciate Twins-Sox either, so I have that going for me.

[Felix]

People within the Chicagoland area don't fully appreciate Twins-Sox either, so I have that going for me.

Yep, same here. My hatred for the Twins has jumped two-fold since moving here... ESPECIALLY my hating of Justin Morneau.

[southsider2k5]

I don't see liking the two parks as mutally exclusive. I loved the old ballpark, but totally understood needing a new one. The Old Lady was done for. More than anything I would have loved to see the skyline involved in the stadium's view somehow ala Cleveland and Detroit.

[RibbieRubarb]

Bingo. Once we won the WS, the "rivalry" seemed irrelevant. I remember being at the games last year and there wasn't that tension, because we didn't care. The only thing that made that series remotely interesting was the sucker punch. Other than that, it was just any other team.

 

Which doesn't mean I won't be at Wrigley next month talking s*** like nobody's business!!! C'mon! Priorities, dude...

 

 

Next year we are planning on bringing a birthday cake to the game in honor of the 100 years of futility and have the closest Cub fan blow out the candles.

[Drew]

I grew up in the suburbs and remember watching a lot of Cub games on WGN after school. That was because the White Sox were in the AL West and the games in Seattle, Oakland, and Anaheim didn't start until 9-ish CT.

 

In other words, past the bedtime of a second- and third-grader. And those were the ones that made it to WFLD. A lot of them were on SportsVision, and for much of my growing up we didn't have cable.

 

Most kids I knew growing up were Cub fans, but it didn't seem like any of us really cared about any sort of rivalry, but our dads got into some smack-talk. But I just remember that I loved baseball and would watch any game I could. And being the shrimpy kid in little league that didn't hit well enough to play corner infield and wasn't strong enough for shortstop, my only shot at averting the solitary confinement known as right field was at second base. So I admired Ryne Sandberg, because at that time he was the best there was. Or at least he was better than Julio Cruz, Tim Heulett, and Fred Manrique put together.

 

When I moved to Lincoln Park in my early 20s, it was a Cub, Cub world. We weren't far removed from the 'magical' summer of '98 and the home run chase, so my Sox cap was kind of like the mark of Cain. But if you think that was bad, try wearing it in Minneapolis. I spent a year living there. Of course that was when the Sox couldn't do anything right in the Dome, so I got mostly laughing and pointing on my trips to Mall of America. Not so fast, Bubba--I'm not the one with the mullet.

 

Out in LA, some people recoil when it came out I was from Chicago and not a Cub fan although most want to know what it was like seeing the World Series from the stands. And they soften when they find out that my NL team has long been the Dodgers.

Edited April 13, 2007 by Drew

[santo=dorf]

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ Apr 12, 2007 -> 11:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It stopped being a rivalry to me on the night of October 26, 2005.

I don't think the rivalry ended that night, it just completely changed.

 

Cub fans went from being snobs caring more about their ballpark over what happens on the field to panicking of losing the city;s grip and being jealous and bitter of our World title.

 

we'll see how things change more when the Sox keep having 90 win seasons and the Cubs reach their centennial.

[WilliamTell]

It kinda does to me, because I live in Iowa and the Iowa Cubs are always talked about, which means the Cubs are a very popular team here. But for me the Twins are the biggest rivialy since it seems all of Northern Iowa loves the Twins and the Cubs.

[Wanne]

I don't live back there anymore...not for 23 years...but yes, it does mean a lot to me. I HATE THE CUBS!!!!

[DABearSoX]

Well I don't think it is the same if you did not grow up in the chicago area, But i live out here in Boulder and i gotta say at least 25% of CU has gotta be from IL. The feelings of course follow us out here and during those series there is a lot of s*** talking down on Pearl St. (bar heaven)

[MattZakrowski]

I'm about 100 miles away from Chicago, and at my school fans split about 40% Cubs 30% Sox 20% Yanks/Red Sox and 10% other, so Cubs-Sox is pretty big, but for me Sox-Twins is almost as big, because my best friend is a Twins fan, and we give each other a lot of s***.

[zimne piwo]

... When I first meet people (provided that I'm not wearing my Sox hat) most people hearing that I'm from the Chicago area assume that I'm a Cub fan. That annoys the hell out of me. When I tell that I'm a Sox fan (and I have to say White Sox so that they don't think I'm a Red Sox fan) and that I loathe everything about the Cubs they just don't understand why. I simply tell them that it's very deep-rooted and there's nothing I can do about it...

 

You hit the proverbial nail on the head with that assessment. I've been in Oklahoma City for 8 years now and I can confirm that's the usual reaction from folks when they find out I'm from Chicago. Especially prior to 2005 when I told them I'm a White Sox fan I would get the most quizzical looks in response.

Edited April 14, 2007 by zimne piwo

[knightni]

I'm about 100 miles away from Chicago, and at my school fans split about 40% Cubs 30% Sox 20% Yanks/Red Sox and 10% other, so Cubs-Sox is pretty big, but for me Sox-Twins is almost as big, because my best friend is a Twins fan, and we give each other a lot of s***.

You don't say...

 

Gee where do you live?

 

[Drew]

I don't hate the Cubs, I just think most of their fans have been lobotomized.

 

Seriously.

 

I was at Dodger Stadium when the Cubs were in town and saw the game where Rafael Furcal knocked Derrek Lee out of the game (and the next eight or so weeks) with a wrist injury.

 

The Cubs went onto win a sloppy game riddled with errors and poor pitching from both sides but all the Cub fans could do was cheer 'Chi-Town Kicks Ass!' on the hour-long wait to get out of the parking lot.

 

First, I hate it when people call it Chi-Town.

 

Second, you just lost your best player for a couple of months.

 

Third, you won a game that the Kane County Cougars could have won.

[premo]

I'm originally from Upstate NY, and now I live in North Dakota. Both places I've lived, really no one other than me was a Sox fan. Before we won the World Series, for me anyway, the Cubs series were always a big deal for me. I don't know why, maybe just trying to fit in, maybe I just hated listening to Cubs fans piss and moan about curses and the like. Same with Boston fans. But since the Sox won the World Series, I've developed a much greater hatred towards inter-division rivals, namely the Twins.