White Sox win the world series!!!!

Yes , it's true , dear readers , the Chicago White Sox have won the world series!!!!
Unbelievable. And they did it very convincingly . I just hope I don't have to wait another 86 years to see another one. I grew up in the north suburbs of Chicago , as a cubbie fan , 'cause if you live on the north side , it's in your genes to be a cubs fan. You don't question it , it's just the way it is. Then, when you get older , and the years of cubs mediocrity has sunk in , waiting for them to get in the playoffs only to be crushed year after year, you get rather tired of watching baseball. 'Cause the cubbies hardly ever play real baseball , it's sort of glorified little league. So , while the cute little cubbies were playing like a bunch of bush leaguers , the white sox were pitching , stealing bases , hitting homers , getting timely hits , and generally playing like a championship team.
I watched the last world series game at a local north side bar last night , while , normally a cubs bar , was filling in as a White Sox bar. They weren't hard core cubs fans , as they were cheering the sox , ( real hard core cubs fans don't cheer on the sox , as hard core sox fans don't cheer for the cubs), but there were some hard core cub fans in attendance. The hard core cub fans were in agony , watching their enemies winning something they could only dream about. Well , cubbie fans , keep dreaming , cause it's never going to happen. If it ever does , you know hell's about to freeze over.
Last year , the Red Sox won , after many many years of getting close , (they've been in the series many more times than the cubs or sox , while hardly every winning.
As far as I'm concerned , the owners of the Cubs , The Chicago Tribune , treats cub fans like children, dangling some glory player in the fans faces , like a Greg Maddox, or a Nomar Garciapara, only to have then wallow in cub mediocrity, year after year , until age or injury or both leads them to retirement , never bringing a world series to the team. Remember , "there is no "I" in " team ". I don't think the cubs have ever figured that out, the cubs thinking seem to always be, bring in a few decent pitchers , bring in a few home run hitters , and the fans ,(suckers) will come in. The team may get close to a series , as they did in 2003 , only to have their hopes dashed by a phantom named Bartman who bobbled a ball that was supposed to be caught by Moises Alou. They had a chance and they couldn't follow through , as they do year , after year . Of course , the White Sox don't have much of a history to be proud of either, as their past has been bruised by black sox scandal involving a Jewish gangster named Arnold Rothstien paying the sox to throw the series as a way of getting back for the shoddy treatment dished out by one Charles Comiskey , the skinflint owner who had a ballpark named after him until Mr Reinsdorf and US celluar came a knockin'. In between those times , there was one Mr Bill Veeck , the carnival barker / baseball historian , whose idea of baseball was part vaudeville house , part three ring circus , all fun , except that he didn't have nearly the payroll to afford a good team and was subsequently the low budget owner , the owner for the average working Joe. But he was the owner the last time the Sox were in the series, in 1959 , when I was just a year old , and probably living in Cleveland, a year before My family moved back to the Chicago area.
Well , the 1959 Sox didn't win the series , either , and the Sox, already a second tier team in a two team city , had some really bad teams over the years , and a few good ones . One year that comes to mind is 1984 , when the Sox seemed to be destined to be in the series , only to have a strike cause the series to be canceled , like another rug pulled out from the long abused and suffering fans . Of course some of the older sox fans still talk about all the memories in old Comiskey Park , which, after years of neglect and low budgets , had to be torn down or would have fallen down on an unsuspecting beer drinker in the stands. Apparently , the ghost of Babe Ruth still hangs out in old Bridgeport bars , looking for a beer in between innings. (I just made that up for effect) I did have a few occasions to visit old Comiskey Park in the seventies and early eighties. It wasn't in the best shape in those days , but it had character and probably should have been treated better, but it's a new , rich money era in baseball , it has been for many years now and it's at the point now where the average Joe can't afford to go to the game , at least without spending at least $15.00 for the cheap seats and the $5.00 beers and 4 dollar hotdogs , well it all adds up , so that the sport that was originally for the working stiffs to get away from their humdrum lives is for the suits and executives that the working man shuns.
That was what Bill Veeck was trying to fight against . He was a regular guy who didn't want the giant salaries and giant egos to overtake the game. But he was from a different era.
So they built this new Sox park thing , and it's kind of a travesty. It's been called the "ball mall" , as it has all the personality of Schaumberg , and it's not the most personal ballpark , all concrete and tiers of seats high in the clouds. I haven't been there in a number of years , I probably am not a real baseball fan although I found them very exciting this year . They took it all, and half of the city doesn't even care, and that's just sad.
But , dear readers I think I'm officially a Sox fan now , tired of years of the Cubs playing it safe. Tomorrow, I buy a Sox hat.