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Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic party converge on Denver to, among other things, unify the group after the drawn out primary season continues to divide Democrats into two camps: those who support Obama and the fans of Hillary.
But Obama apparently has no intentions of trying to similarly unify the fans of Chicago's two baseball teams. If anything, he's still fueling the rivalries when it comes to our national past time.
Asked recently by ESPN about Cubs fans, he replied, "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."
Chicagoist only hopes that his audacious smear campaign against Cubs fans doesn't send North Side voters into the arms of a certain Diamondbacks fan come November. Perhaps they won't hold it against it him if they're still high from the excitement of winning a World Series come election day.
And Sox fans might just be able to live with a World Series at Wrigley if there's a White Sox fan in the White House come January.
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This narrative of "Cubs fans don't watch the game" is SO tired. I went to a Sox game recently and the fans didn't seem any more or less engaged than fans at a Cubs game. Although many seemed to be more interested in harassing the multiple Red Sox fans in attendance.
Seriously, Red Sox fans outnumbered the White Sox fans, and we were much, much more interested in the game than the home team fans. I almost expected to hear Sweet Caroline over the PA.
It might be tired, but it's true. A stadium full of Trixies, no thanks.
tecki: Red Sox fans are a whole different breed of beast than any other major league fan
First Hillary dumps the cibs for the yankees and now Obama pisses all over Wrigley, no one sane wants to be associated with a pathetic bunch of losers like the Cubs. But hey don't worry you still have blago as a cubs fan
It's not true or false, it's completely unquantifiable. I don't think anyone intelligent enough to vote for a Democrat would decide not to vote for Obama because of his baseball allgiances however...oh, look at me, making wild statements that are impossible to prove.
I know that politics are more important than baseball but you'd think someone who people think is Muslim, wasn't born in this country and is secretly plotting to take over the world once he gets into the White House would know better than to go off stereotypes.
man, i don't get it. here's the deal:
if you sit in the bleachers, the likelihood of people watching the game goes down immensely. i don't sit out there if i can help it (i.e. unless i get a free ticket). there's something about the angle and the far away-ness (hard to believe in wrigley) that does make it hard to pay attention out there for some reason. oh, and all the dudes playing 'pass the cup with the money based on where the ball lands after the inning's over' game.
but, whenever i go and sit in the regular part of the stands, i rarely encounter these hoards of people not watching the game and jaw-jacking on their cell phones. i almost always have one or two people around me scoring the game and everyone else is into the game, talking about players, doing cheers and totally into what's going on. so, i just don't buy this whole 'no one gives a fck at wrigley' crap.
"so, i just don't buy this whole 'no one gives a fck at wrigley' crap."
It's just something used by lazy haters in the same way that some other lazy haters so that Sox fans are all white trash drunks
tecki: Red Sox fans are a whole different breed of beast than any other major league fan
They even beat Cubs fans for biggest d-bags of the jungle.
"They even beat Cubs fans for biggest d-bags of the jungle."
this gets so old
Funny how Obama wants to rail against people who he thinks flock to what's popular. Given his campaign, that shows a serious disconnect with reality.