One of my 273 pet peeves about Iowa football fans from the state of Iowa is they're always trying to take credit for the achievements of former players from the program. Some people I went to college with are bandwagon Chargers fans because former Hawkeye Nate Kaeding plays there. He's their kicker... their kicker! Now, it's one thing to be proud, but it should have a limit. When the Colts won the Super Bowl, the headline in the Daily Iowan read something like "Former Hawks Clark and Sanders win Super Bowl." Yep, by themselves.
But let's just be hipocritical and throw out those complaints I just had. If you were pressed to name an MLB team which will likely benefit most from these presidential election results, it'd probably be our ChiSox. And the Pale Hose could always use more ink. Always.
So if you're a White Sox donkey, that's just a bonus, and if you're a White Sox elephant, hopefully it's something that cheers you up just a little bit. But if you're a Republican and a Cubs fan, you're pretty much fucked.
I'll let our new president elect end this post with possibly his greatest quote ever (yes, I know it's a little too encompassing ... but when do politicians ever take shots like this?):
Who he'd root for in a Cubs-Sox World Series: "Oh that's easy. White Sox...You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. Southside."
Actually, we probably shouldn't be slanted. In fairness to both parties, we'll give our current president the last word:
I think we agree, the past is over.
so he's saying the 302 people that aren't fake fans and go to Sox games when they are sucking watch the games?...sweet dude, you're right, Cubs fans don't watch the game...there's baseball at Wrigley?
I live across the street from Grant Park, the whole atmosphere in the neighborhood yesterday was awesome.
I didn't have a ticket to be inside of the park, but I hung out outside during his speech. There were so many people, all of them celebrating but doing it completely peacefully. People were in trees to get a better view, about 70 people were huddled around a radio to hear the speech, and everyone was pretty much overcome with joy. Just being there - at least to me as an Obama supporter - it kind of felt like you were part of something big.
I was even persuaded to buy an Obama t-shirt from one of about 8,000 street vendors. It has Obama dunking a basketball, wearing the Dream Team uniform, over McCain and says "Game Over".