To all Sox Fans on the board:

You're B.S. posts in the Cubs section tonight have been duly noted. But I'll tell you right now. . . "You better stay out of Cubs business!"

Can we make B.S. posts about an unnamed third team?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Nice try, Rick, but no one gives a damn about the Brewers.

I was talking about the Expos, but I'll accept no one caring about the Brewers.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

*yawn*

I'm a Sox fan first but baseball fan second. I can post objectively about the team on the other side of the town so take your BS post over there.

I know, I'm the same way. I can look at the Cubs objectively and am not a hater type Sox fan. I don't root for them to lose or get pleasure out of it. They were a very hateable team with guys like Barrett and (what was that pud reliever's name?) but now they are a pretty likeable team that is entertaining to watch. I watch Sox games first but at commercial flip to the Cubs. Local baseball is fun to watch.

What makes this a "serious warning"? Am I to infer that there will be some dire consequences for me if I go into the Cubs forum and post something about them being a mediocre team in an atrocious division in an inferior league?

If we don't stop they're going to come over and post "garbage" in our forum. One of my greatest memories is leaving Wrigley Field after Game 7 of the Marlins Championship Series and looking at the sad faces as I was walking through Wrigleyville. Even the horses looked like they were going to cry. That's #2 on my greatest sporting moment that I witnessed in person. #1 was being at the Super Bowl this past year. Good times....

[quote="keeder"][quote]What makes this a "serious warning"? Am I to infer that there will be some dire consequences for me if I go into the Cubs forum and post something about them being a mediocre team in an atrocious division in an inferior league?[/quote]

If we don't stop they're going to come over and post "garbage" in our forum. One of my greatest memories is leaving Wrigley Field after Game 7 of the Marlins Championship Series and looking at the sad faces as I was walking through Wrigleyville. Even the horses looked like they were going to cry. That's #2 on my greatest sporting moment that I witnessed in person. #1 was being at the Super Bowl this past year. Good times....[/quote]

It was you who was being a shit over in the Cubs section. Most of the other Sox fans here can be objective. You were simply being an ass because...who the hell knows why? Bad day at the office? Whatever the reason, yesterday's game brought out some insipid bon mots from you. You finish Reason's game yet?

Your second favorite sports moment is watching other people cry? Holy crap but that's lame. Whatever floats your boat, but it strikes me as somewhat misanthropic.

As for the "serious warning", I would think it's tongue in cheek. If it's not...good luck on the consequences part. I wouldn't hide under the covers about it.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

It's Sox fans (and Cub fans) that act like this that cause so much animosity between the two sides in this city. If the Cubs do well this year and win it all, I'll be happy for all of my friends and few family members who are fans. I'll be upset the Sox weren't there again but will also have a good time being around for it.

Sure there will be the inevitable Cub fan assholes who talk crap to me and other Sox fans about how their World Series is a bigger deal, they have more fans, their parade was bigger, tv ratings were better, etc. but I'm not going to make those assholes turn me into the stereotypical bitter Sox fan. It will be a much more fun and interesting summer/fall for me and many others in Chicago if the Cubs are in it which is a hell of a lot better than if they fall out and we have a Mets/Angels World Series.

When the Sox won in 2005, I was happy for my friends and co-workers who were Sox fans. SOMEBODY in Chicago got to celebrate a WS title. That's important.
Did I enjoy it? Nope. Can't say that I did. But I certainly didn't root against the Sox and would have received no joy had they failed.
When the Cubs win it all, I certainly won't waste my breath trying to one up Sox fans...I'll just know how satisfying it must've been in '05.
The animosity is stupid. Reveling in other's pain is bizarre.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

I've never seen this issue better worded. Kerchungathunk, you are well deserving of a:

That's an excellent point. Nice post!

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[quote="Frank Coztansa"][quote="kerchungathunk"]When the Cubs win it all [/quote]

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Nouveau rich.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

[quote="Coach Crapowski"]Can everyone relax please. Cubs don't have enough arms, bats, and gloves to win the WS this year. Simple as that.

Sure they win plenty, but they are in NL, fellas.[/quote]

Just like the last WS champion.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

[quote="NSJ"][quote="kerchungathunk"]When the Sox won in 2005, I was happy for my friends and co-workers who were Sox fans. SOMEBODY in Chicago got to celebrate a WS title. That's important.
Did I enjoy it? Nope. Can't say that I did. But I certainly didn't root against the Sox and would have received no joy had they failed.
When the Cubs win it all, I certainly won't waste my breath trying to one up Sox fans...I'll just know how satisfying it must've been in '05.
The animosity is stupid. Reveling in other's pain is bizarre.[/quote]

I've never seen this issue better worded. Kerchungathunk, you are well deserving of a:

[b]That's an excellent point. Nice post![/b][/quote]

Thank you. Only took me 400 posts to get here.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

I think NSJ is trying to say, now go away or we shall taunt you a second time.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I would not go as far as to put it in my great moments but I do love that picture of the female cubs fan with her eyes close and her hands clenched crying.

That one was pretty funny, but this one from the year after is still my favorite. Whoever at Sox park thought this up during the Cub Sox game is a genius...

Cross Taunting is encouraged

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

What was a Sox fan doing at Game 7 of the NLCS at Wrigley that didn't involve your Sox? I hope your ticket was comped.

Are you inferring that you're a Colt fan because I was at the Super Bowl this past year as well ( button 48 ) and although it was possibly a "once in a lifetime" experience, watching the Bears lose in the rain does not go down in my books as my top sporting moment.

What was a Sox fan doing at Game 7 of the NLCS at Wrigley that didn't involve your Sox? I hope your ticket was comped.

Are you inferring that you're a Colt fan because I was at the Super Bowl this past year as well ( button 48 ) and although it was possibly a "once in a lifetime" experience, watching the Bears lose in the rain does not go down in my books as my top sporting moment.

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No, I am most definately a die hard Bears fan and season ticket holder. Even though the weather and the second half of the game sucked, I still wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

As far as what I was doing at that game 7, I was at one time one of those fans who rooted for both teams, but for people like Harry, interleague games, and Dusty Baker, it became obvious to me that I had to pick a side and I had to go with my South Side roots and have never looked back.

So lemme get this straight. Harry influences your life. What power this person you dislike has over you. Remarkable.

Dusty Baker influenced you more than Bevington, Manuel et. al? All managers are hired to be fired, yet the transient Baker so moved you? You should tell him about his power over you. Maybe he could tell you to chill out dude.

Six games a year seems to be the most defendable point of your reasoning. That too is revealing.

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Stupidity irritates the crap outta me... and yes, I irritate myself far too often.

The Hawkeye-Sox connection here was once strong

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These are the golden era posters that are so missed?

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My favorite ole time poster!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Sorry Frank, but the rules are the rules...