Darkside wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Darkside wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Stone with Hawk is fine.
Funny how the majority of people who have a problem with Hawk aren't even Sox fans.
It's not funny. It's completely logical.
No.
Fans of the cubs and the Sox alike would agree that a big problem with Hawks likability would be his over exuberant homerism. Sox fans love it. Cubs fans don't. That's one easy reason why you're wrong. Again.
I'm not entirely sure what qualifies one being a "homer".
If being a "homer" were to only mean making it clear you want 'your' team to win, being more exuberant about home-team home runs, and that kind of thing - I'm all fine with that; I don't need an unbiased robot ... that's what a box-score is for.
If it's pretending flaws don't exist, not being appropriately critical at times, pretending umpires have secret vendettas, pouting about calls innings, games, months, or even seasons later - then yeah that's dogshit.
I love the Cubs and hate the Sox - that's just how it's always been and I'm fine if everyone else in the western world thinks that's insane ... I'm not some bi-curious (so to speak) Chicago baseball fan and don't exactly see the intellectual superiority in being otherwise.
That said, I'd be pleased as punch if, the Cubs weren't on, I could turn on the White Sox game because I love baseball as a whole and would like to watch the other product in town (albeit hopefully in a losing effort, but I'll still live my rich, full life if they happen to win).
The problem is I opt to virtually never do so because their lead announcer is (imo) a horrible distraction from the product on the field too often to just ignore.