Up in Chicago I know how much the media is biased towards the Cubs. I just thought I would provide a little perspective on what it is like downstate - in Springfield. Here is a story from one of our paper's sportswriters that sums it up pretty well.

 

State Journal Register

 

 

I guess I cannot get upset too much at the writer - what he has written is pretty much what I have observed down here. At least the Sox got ink of some sort down here.

 

In any case, I hope you all can understand why I dislike the Cubs and

the Cardinals. It is lonely being a downstate Sox fan!

I think you found a sports-writer more clueless and f***ed up than Joe Posnanski

 

:fyou this guy. Doesn't surprise me he's a self-admitted Cub fan. And someone should drive a VW mini-bus through his f***ing office if the White Sox go to the World Series. f***ing asshole.

 

And he forgot the Cubs greatest tradition of all. Losing and choking. :fthecubs

f*** him. Yeah he probably went up to all the people in Cubs shirts. I can see the Cardinals fans, sure, but that many Cubs fans.

 

:fyou :fthecubs

Typical, predictable, cowtown minor-league "journalism".

It's getting to the point where the only reason to read the paper - ANY newspaper at all - is to avoid having to look at the miscreants on my morning train to work...

My Gawd what a complete lightweight! The time reading his drivel was time wasted.

Well, to be fair to the guy, he does accurately report the lack of Sox interest around here. It took quite a while for me to find even a Sox t-shirt at the mall in the sea of all the red and blue stuff. And the comment about the lack of radio coverage - that was right on. I am forced to listen to am1000 and at night all I can hear on that frequency is spanish and static.

 

However I do take strong issue to his comment the Sox have no tradition. Tradition has been the richest part of the sox experience and I would take any of the sox stars he lists over any of the cub stars he compares them to. And the volkswagon comment was a cheap shot, no question about it.

Who reads this paper? I ask this question becasue if there are no Sox fans in that area why write about them? Wouldn't the fans down there rather read about the Cards or cub. This sounds like a guy just trying to stir it up to get his name going. What an ass.

lmao..... the intern should remain in school and this reporter should check facts a bit better, i would start ripping him apart on his comparisons but i feel that would be ripping on a knowledge challanged person... its obvious this writer has none......and hes never been to wrigley before or he would know that scrub fans dont even have a bandwagon ... kinda hard to drive more than two folks at a time on their bicycles......

So how was the Hog reports out of the paper