I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side. Do not follow me for guidance....what an absolute joke

50 minutes ago, Slewpy said:

I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side. Do not follow me for guidance....what an absolute joke

Try to stay alive and see what Ishbia may be able to do.

13 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Try to stay alive and see what Ishbia may be able to do.

Sad that the motto has to be, “try to stay alive.” Morbid as f***. Meanwhile, JR is going to live to 100.

1 hour ago, Slewpy said:

I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side

What is this bulsh!t? Cutting your son loose to be a Cub fan ? Have you cut your son loose on religious belief or did you indoctrinate him with yours? Either you aren't really a White Sox fan or you like making absurd, illogical posts after a White Sox loss. Either way, I don't give a fvk what you think.

38 minutes ago, tray said:

What is this bulsh!t? Cutting your son loose to be a Cub fan ? Have you cut your son loose on religious belief or did you indoctrinate him with yours? Either you aren't really a White Sox fan or you like making absurd, illogical posts after a White Sox loss. Either way, I don't give a fvk what you think.

Jerry ruins everything.

13 hours ago, Slewpy said:

I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side. Do not follow me for guidance....what an absolute joke

I don't think you're alone in feeling this way. This is what's most concerning about this franchise - JR, through his incompetence, has driven away a significant number of life-long fans and killed interest in the team for many of the next generation. It's going to be hard to bring these people back and just getting good enough again to make it to the first round of the playoffs once in a while isn't going to be enough to turn things around and bring fans back.

The good news is that, at age 57, you and your son should outlast Jerry Reinsdorf by several decades and he has a deep-pocketed billionaire lined up to take ownership of the team. We can only hope that the Ishbias will finally turn this franchise around in a meaningful way. Yeah, I know some Sox fans are convinced that Justin Ishbia is going to be just as bad as JR, if not worse, and that fans will simply turn on him too. I dunno, I guess anything is possible. IMO, I would just stop being a fan altogether if I thought this franchise is that doomed such that we'll see this same level of soul-sucking incompetence from the next owner.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by 77 Hitmen

40 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

I don't think you're alone in feeling this way. This is what's most concerning about this franchise - JR, through his incompetence, has driven away a significant number of life-long fans and killed interest in the team for many of the next generation. It's going to be hard to bring these people back and just getting good enough again to make it to the first round of the playoffs once in a while isn't going to be enough to turn things around and bring fans back.

The good news is that, at age 57, you and your son should outlast Jerry Reinsdorf by several decades and he has a deep-pocketed billionaire lined up to take ownership of the team. We can only hope that the Ishbias will finally turn this franchise around in a meaningful way. Yeah, I know some Sox fans are convinced that Justin Ishbia is going to be just as bad as JR, if not worse, and that fans will simply turn on him too. I dunno, I guess anything is possible. IMO, I would just stop being a fan altogether if I thought this franchise is that doomed such that we'll see this same level of soul-sucking incompetence from the next owner.

Look, it's a rough decade to be a White Sox fan. We get it. You are allowed to be angry, bitter, mad, whatever.

Its been rough, no doubt. Only Dodger fans have won for last 2 years now. Granted it would be nicer to be competitive, but Jery can't last forever, can he? We wont win the world series this year but neither will 28 other teams. Don't come running back later. Quitters never win and winners never quit.

AI will find a way to stop/reverse aging and JR will be the owner for the next 10,000 years. Cinch it up and hunker down!

15 hours ago, Slewpy said:

I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side. Do not follow me for guidance....what an absolute joke

How do you think I feel, I turned 80 two months ago but as much as I detest Reinsdorf, I’m hanging in there and yes it’s tough but the White Sox are my team and always will be, right now I hope just to see a winning season soon.

I've outgrown this "go be a Cub fan" like it's some sort of insult.

Well, I can't tell any father in Chicago or Chicagoland or Illinois how to feel so I'm sorry it's come to that for your fandom. And I'm sorry all of us have suffered so long under JR.

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

I've outgrown this "go be a Cub fan" like it's some sort of insult.

Honestly it's like 3rd grade at recess insults.

3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Honestly it's like 3rd grade at recess insults.

Cubs' fans already jumping back off the bandwagon.

22 hours ago, Slewpy said:

I've never felt so embarrassed to claim to be a white Sox fan. This has to be the worst organization in the bigs and I have to apologize to my son for making him follow my fan footsteps. Please young man, you are more than cut loose and can root for any team you want. Even if it on the north side. Do not follow me for guidance....what an absolute joke

Not easy to be so bad for so long.

Here is the thing. We all root for the Chicago White Sox. In most cases, your fandom is passed down from a parent, family member or friend. OP references his son, following in his footsteps.

When you root for a team, you aren’t rooting for the owner. Jerry Reinsdorf isn’t the White Sox. When he dies, the White Sox don’t go with him. Now, that man has caused an incredible amount of frustration for us and deserves every ounce of vitriol thrown his way. He is a stain on Chicago sports and should be embarrassed of his ownership run. But he isn’t why I root for the White Sox, nor will it ever be. I root for them because I had White Sox wallpaper as a 4 year old, and I’ve got about 400 ticket stubs in a box from 1999-2020, and I’d guess a little more than half of those games, I was with my dad.

Things suck right now. They are going to continue to suck until Jerry dies. Giving a second thought about a Brooks Baldwin injury or where Andrew Benintendi is batting in the lineup is a waste of time, because none of it matters right now. All we can do is hope that new ownership actually has even the faintest interest in actually winning, and things will be feel a lot better as a Sox fan. Until then…spend your time doing literally anything else.

9 minutes ago, Tony said:

Here is the thing. We all root for the Chicago White Sox. In most cases, your fandom is passed down from a parent, family member or friend. OP references his son, following in his footsteps.

When you root for a team, you aren’t rooting for the owner. Jerry Reinsdorf isn’t the White Sox. When he dies, the White Sox don’t go with him. Now, that man has caused an incredible amount of frustration for us and deserves every ounce of vitriol thrown his way. He is a stain on Chicago sports and should be embarrassed of his ownership run. But he isn’t why I root for the White Sox, nor will it ever be. I root for them because I had White Sox wallpaper as a 4 year old, and I’ve got about 400 ticket stubs in a box from 1999-2020, and I’d guess a little more than half of those games, I was with my dad.

Things suck right now. They are going to continue to suck until Jerry dies. Giving a second thought about a Brooks Baldwin injury or where Andrew Benintendi is batting in the lineup is a waste of time, because none of it matters right now. All we can do is hope that new ownership actually has even the faintest interest in actually winning, and things will be feel a lot better as a Sox fan. Until then…spend your time doing literally anything else.

Same here. I went to Sox games with my dad and watched all of the great 90’s lineups. My dad was a Cubs fan but I guess he couldn’t afford Cubs tickets.

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23 hours ago, tray said:

Either you aren't really a White Sox fan or you like making absurd, illogical posts after a White Sox loss.

10 hours ago, soxrwhite said:

Don't come running back later. Quitters never win and winners never quit.

Fandom gatekeeping is the dumbest s%*#.

6 minutes ago, Snopek said:

Fandom gatekeeping is the dumbest s%*#.

"Why do the Cubs have more fans than us!?"

"We told people they couldn't be fans if they weren't around during the s%*# times."

17 minutes ago, Snopek said:

Fandom gatekeeping is the dumbest s%*#.

And goes against how smart White Sox fans respond to the team. Why pour money into Jerry’s pockets if he is presenting a piece of s%*# product?