by Joe Doyle on August 27, 2008
Swiped from The Chicago Tribune:
Derrek Lee sees truth in Obama’s statement
By Paul Sullivan | Chicago Tribune reporter
August 27, 2008
PITTSBURGH — Barack Obama’s biggest supporter in the Cubs’ clubhouse is probably Derrek Lee, who won’t be changing his vote because of Obama’s description of Cubs fans as beautiful, beer-drinkers who don’t come to Wrigley Field for baseball.
“You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there,” Obama said in an ESPN interview. “People aren’t watching the game. It’s not serious. White Sox, that’s baseball. South Side.”
Lee hadn’t heard of Obama’s interview, but said the comment doesn’t surprise him.
“I mean, he’s right,” Lee said with a grin. “I think most of the fans there are just there to enjoy the experience, and, uh, drink beer. I mean, is that not true?”
In the immortal words of Lili Von Shtüpp, the Teutonic Titwillow:
“It’s twoo.
It’s twoo. It’s twoo.”
by Joe Doyle on August 23, 2008
I gotta tell ya, I’m just a little sick of all this Cubs crap already. Thursday during the Bears game FOX showed Cubs fans and talked to them – they even threw Cubs standings up on the screen. Not once did they mention the White Sox playoff race.
It gets better.
After the game, I switch to the Olympics. Misty May and Kerri Walsh are in the stands for the men’s final when the camera turns to them. Dork in front? Yeah, wearing a Cubs hat.
OK, I change channel. FOX Sports North for the Twins score. Commercial - a promo for the fall post season featuring Cubs, Card, Yankees, a couple other teams - no White Sox.
Grrrr.
The blue pinstripers will always be media darlings – there reach is vast due largely in part to the first cable superstation, WGN. It’s the very reason why Delores from Des Moines and Ethel from Edwardsville are such huge fans. But it doesn’t mean it I have to be happy about it (or that the Sox should be ignored).
OK, turn off the broadcast media and go online. I click a teaser link labeled “Obama chooses running mate”. The reveal was the Cubs fan you see below, forcing himself into the frame with Obama.
Turns out is some washed-up reality star named Jonny Fairplay. Immediately I thought, “who is this whack job?” And, “why do I keep seeing Cubs fans everywhere, this sucks.” Well, they are everywhere. The Cubs are the lovable losers with national appeal.
So I turned to writing headlines to keep my mind off this barrage of red Cs. Here are just a few.
“Dude, got any papers.”
“Hey Obama - you’re a Southsider, right? Sox suck.”
“Obama backwards is amabO.”
“Do you think you’ll run with Hillary RODMAN Clinton?”
“You have no idea where this thumb has been.”
“Eeeeeehhhhhhh”
“Your security sucks”
Join me, won’t you?
