“Sweep out the Astros, sweep ‘em down the street, put ‘em in the dustbin where they look so neat. Go Sox! Go Sox! Go Sox! Pffffffft...” Voice message from my friend Harry this morning in reference to the Chicago White Sox winning The World Series in four games straight.Okay, okay, so the Chicago White Sox won. Big deal! Yep, I know I rooted for the Houston Astros, but they are a National League team and that’s the side I always root for, no matter what, including the all-star games, which lately seem to be swinging the other way, in that the American League has been winning both the all-star games and World Series for the past several years.
At least my big brother Louie is happy. He's been a Chicago White Sox fan most of his life. Louie deserves to be happy. So is My father Rex; he gets a free breakfast and dinner out of me from the two bets we made over the course of the playoffs & World Series.
Quite honestly, I am happy for the Chicago White Sox, I really hope they are happy as well winning the title after a dry spell of 88 years (1917), when they won their last crown, so says the press, anyway. It’s nice to see the team and its fans happy, except for one little thing; when is the comparison of the Chicago Cubs to the Chicago White Sox good-team/bad-team crap going to stop?
Last night after listening to the final baseball game on the radio and a lot of the justifiable accolades that went with their crown, I heard that same old jib-jab rag-tag bitch-slap crap hurled against the Chicago Cubs by various callers.
You’d swear you were in the Middle East with all this senseless on-going fighting and bickering between the two fan factions!
What encouraged me however, were the radio talk show hosts that “pushed the button” and knocked those callers off the air almost immediately, echoing the sentiments of it being a time for the Chicago White Sox to bask in the glory of a newly bestowed title and NOT a time to bash others, be it the Chicago Cubs or the Houston Astros.
It sure didn’t help that Chicago White Sox team member Carl Everett took a stab at the Chicago Cubs and their fans as well, but I suppose it was alright for him to do so, now that he has a World Series ring on his little finger. I guess you can say anything once you win the big prize, but then again, what does one expect from someone who formerly played for the New York Mets, anyway?
During the week of the World Series, I did a lot of web-surfing, mostly www.craigslist.org, to view, cringe and laugh at all of the too numerous cruel and unusually harsh posts that dissed the Chicago Cubs and praising the Chicago White Sox and vice-versa.
It was extremely disheartening to see this kind of frivolous kind of poke and jab sport to even be up online, but I guess people will go to all extremes just to get their point across.
And then of course there were several incidents of several Chicago White Sox fans physically harming and gesturing negatively to Houston Astros players’ wives during a World Series game. Most notably harmed was Patty Biggio, wife of Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio who was slapped in the head.
Other Astros players’ wives were allegedly targets of rude hand gestures. Thankfully security detail caught the man who harmed Biggio’s wife, but surprisingly neither she nor Craig pressed charges against him. Texans are like that, very polite and brought up to mind their manners, no matter the situation, unlike some White Sox fans that will stop at nothing to be outright stupid & rude.
Among some of the remarks I found on the official Houston Astros team website (http://houston.astros.mlb.com) regarding the incident includes: “Sox fans are a bunch of wife beaters… Good riddance S*u*x fans....go home and assault your own wives…”
And then were some sympathetic and encouraging messages (as few and far between as they came), includes: “While Mrs. Biggio may have downplayed it, why does this thing have happen? Oh yes because the majority of Shit-Sox are totally classless bush league unsportsmanlike gloating bastards…When I heard about Biggio's wife I felt totally disgusted and ashamed. This type of crap goes on at The Cell (Cellular Field). I was pushed once myself by some South Side trash. During the Cubs/Sox matches, somebody is always inevitably roughed up by an insane Sux (sic) fan…”
Then of course, there was the suggestion that there wasn’t a single player on the current roster of the Houston Astros that was not a “person of color.” Is that like when the cops find a suspect and call them a “person of interest?” What does it matter so much that a person of color isn’t on a team? Does that mean the team will suffer any less or play terribly if they don’t have that diversity on their team?
No! Of course not!
I personally don’t believe the Chicago White Sox encourage this type of behavior, but one thing is for certain, the organization should probably re-evaluate their rules and heavily discourage nasty Nazi pit-bull fans that will stop at nothing to Hitler-tize their blue-collar hatred over all concerned and teach them how to behave like human beings and not thugs.
If all else fails, ban them from the ballpark permanently.
It would be a great way to start the 2006 Chicago White Sox season.
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