Both Mariotti's column (no surprise) and Carol Slezek's column talked about the lack of "buzz" for this year's Sox team and how things would be different if it were the Cubs (blah, blah, blah).

 

Whatever.

Why is there even talk about this?

 

Sickening.

Give it a rest.

The #1 thing I am asked is what's up with the whole Cubs/Sox thing (always in that order). It does not compare with the Mets/Yankees because the Yankees have been so successful and dwarf the Mets. Even the Angels/Dodgers thing is kind of secondary. There is no better rivalry for no understandable reason that Sox/Cubs. Bears Packers play in the same division. Notre Dame USC has 70+ meetings. Cowboys Redskins another divisional rivalry. Longhorn Sooners, division rivalry.

 

Sox Cubs? A city split in two, usually debating which team sucked less the previous year. Two teams that for decades never played each other. The same fans who join together at Bulls, Bears, and Hawks games, fighting at baseball games.

 

It is one thing that makes this unique to the nation. Fans in other cities really cannot understand a Chicagoan cheering against a Chicago team. Certainly they can understand a transplant, but not someone born and raised in the city. Imagine if Houston won last night and half the city either didn't care or was pissed that the Astros won? That's how absurd it is to the rest of America, and something we know in our souls is right and fair.