I've seen the alternative. I choose old!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

This team needs a song,
I say this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VPLOVJ0u94

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I'm sure you do. You looked the Grim Reaper in the eyes and he blinked. Hopefully I am that lucky in 100 years.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I fucking hated King Kong and those wimpy baby blues. I knew Chet Lemon was better because he was the only white sox guy I knew at the time.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

One of my earliest Cubs memories was Harry singing "Jody - Jody Davis"

My bro wears the Davis 7 jersey when he goes to games.

The trade of Bill Madlock for Bobby F-ing Murcer ended all desire to remain a Cub fan. I too, loved Bill Madlock.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Same here

Also, my grandma used to switch to radio when Harry went over for 3 innings. She couldnt stand Dwayne Stats

His hat never looked like it fit him, drove me crazy.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Bill Madlock was very popular out in the school yard, back when people thought a high batting average was a good thing.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

As a yute, I loved Sandberg because I played 2nd base in little league. While I went to Sox games as a child, I liked both teams up until 1993. That is when I really got into the Sox.

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Growing up on the North side, my old man had to work hard for a little while to make sure I didn't become a Cubs fan. Every kid I went to school with rooted for the Cubs. It was a pretty easy and natural for me to do. Not to mention my dad worked right down the street from Wrigley and took me to a lot of Cub games. I can remember having the "Cub Power" poster in my room and my dad talking me into taking it down. But those were dark days for the White Sox and the Cubs had some pretty good teams. I mean, seriously, who does a kid want to root for, Ron Santo and Billy Williams or Duane Josephson and Gail Hopkins? But once Dick Allen came along my loyalties were solidified.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Simple, for me. I caught the chicken pox in the Summer of 1988. After cartoons ended, the only thing on tv worth watching was baseball. Sox were on cable so I couldn't watch them, while the Cubs were on WGN. Had it been the other way around, I may be a Sox fan now. I became hooked on the Cubs in 1989 when they made the playoffs. I thought they'd be competitive every year.


I've never been a Sox hater. As a kid, I always thought it was cool that I lived in a city that had 2 baseball teams.


I am a Sox fan hater, if that makes sense. The Good Dolphins, JORRs, and Grid Assassins that seem to get more enjoyment in Cubs losses than Sox wins.

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My wife asked me the other night what my greatest moment as a Sox fan was. Bartman game.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

[quote="Joe Orr Road Rod"
My wife asked me the other night what my greatest moment as a Sox fan was. Bartman game. [/quote]

That WAS great, wasn't it?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

See what I mean?

One of my cousins is like that, but he did tell me the other day he's actually rooting for the Cubs, which surprised me.

By the way, I was actually more disappointed in the 2004 Cubs season than the 2003 season.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

When I was 8 or 9, on a Little League trip to Wrigley, we saw Artis Gilmore walking in the main concourse...I was the only little kid brave enough to walk up to him and shake his hand...circa mid 70's.

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Well, 2004 was The Team With No Weaknesses.

Seriously though, when the Sox won in '05 I can remember thinking, "It will be okay if I die now". Standing out in the cold on 35th Street with no Cub fans in sight. That was really my greatest moment. I don't mind if the Cubs win. Like I said, I don't root for them. I don't root against them. A team wins the World Series every season. It usually isn't the White Sox.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

How would you ever arrive at that opinion? It's as wrong as could be.

not that I don't enjoy a gut wrenching loss for them from time to time but I'd be bored with baseball if I lived for Cub losses during my lifetime They are the Yankees of suck.

On the other hand, the Sox have been average to decent for most of my post teenage life and interesting enough to not give thought to the Cubs.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Well....you're just a crazy person.

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You know me like that.

Mom was more of a Cubs fan and dad was more of a Sox fan. I am a fan of both teams but the Sox are #1 in my book. I love watching them both play.

I had the best of both worlds growing up. I love Chicago baseball and will never forget the first time walking up into the open air at Wrigley and seeing the beautiful green grass & ivy and the vibrant red bricks as a kid. The wind was breezy, the organ was playing and we lost to the Mets 5-0.

We used to run home from school to finish watching the Cubs games on WGN. Usually, they were in the 7th inning around 3:20 pm. Then the Sox would be on around 7 and it was great. Granted, W's were scarce on both sides of town for a long time but these were the teams I love and grew up on.

Go Cubs!

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Cubs fan from day one. Dad is a life-long Cubs fan, and Mom has adopted that. Used to sit on the floor on weekends with the parents and brother and go nuts when Sandberg would come to the plate.

Our vacations when I was a kid was going to Wrigley or Busch for a Cubs-Cards series. Usually Busch because we had family in the St. Louis area we could stay with. I remember a four game series in Busch when I was 7 or 8 years old where I saw Dawson nail a guy at the plate to save a win... awesome moment.

Followed the Cubs throughout my life but lost interest during the down years and just followed from afar.

2003 was a fun year that ended in disappointment. Still great fun, though, and a great playoff run.

I never understood the hatred for the Cubs from Sox fans until I got older and moved to the Chicago area as an adult. I then started to realize that many Sox fans (not all) stereotyped all Cubs fans as uneducated eternal optimists. It was totally foreign to me, primarily because it's a lazy, false stereotype.

The past few years were rough and I admittedly lost some interest. Reading this board has made my renewed interest in the Cubs that much sweeter because I see the easy but lazy and baseless hatred for Cub fans by SOME Sox fans. I know that every success - no matter how small - KILLS some of those Sox trolls who are good people but terribly unaware of their Cubs bias/hatred. Thank goodness for those fans, as they have made this current run that much sweeter.

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I am aware of my Cubs hatred. It is not baseless. I am glad to be of service to you.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I felt like a 7 year old again watching the Pistons crush the Bulls in 2003. I wanted to cry after Game 7. When Wood hit that 3 run shot I just knew the game was over. In 2004 I didn't miss a second of the season. If I couldn't watch the games I listened to Pat and Ron on the radio. That was the last season I did that. I lost a part of myself that year and I'll never get it back.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

i think the earliest memory i have of the cubs is the 1984 team, where there was some WGN special about the 84 cubs that had van halen's jump playing in the background (mixed with highlights no doubt) and that's the one memory i have of the 84 cubs for sure. jody davis used to be my favorite player because ??? and from there 85 bears memories are pretty much from the VHS tape with the shuffle then the super bowl on it, much like there was that 84 cubs tape that had the van halen jump highlights.

obviously i remember watching the 89 team and watched all the playoff games, but i can't say that it was any more important than the 93 white sox, especially since i went to game 1 of the 93 playoffs @ comiskey (and that was a horrible night for the chicago sports fan cuz walking out of the stadium people were buzzing about michael jordan retiring, so we get out to the car turn on the radio and sure enough he DID retire and the sears tower or hancock or something had office lights on spelling out BYE MJ or something on the drive back through the loop. wowza) but yeah, the earliest memories of baseball were indeed cub memories cuz while my nuclear family was basically "two teams? wow!" (and still are to this day) the rest of my family was cubs fans and that's where we ended up like 5/6 games we went to back then.

oh and growing up there was a tape of the 23-22 game against the phillies and i used to watch that one a bunch.

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My dad grew up in Humboldt Park and used to ditch grade school on Fridays to hop on a city bus to the game by himself. Friday was Ladies Day and they got in free. They would see him alone and buy him food, etc. I think Ladies Day was still around up until the TribCo purchase.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

clearly a cub fan who doesn't care about the Sox. He was asked a Cub question by a Cub fan during a Cub playoff run and ONLY used 2 of his 6 paragraphs to discuss the White Sox.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Cubs always. North Side, born and raised. Represent.