While on vacation, I picked up the October 3rd USA Today which had a great front page article on the Cubs and Sox before the roof caved in.
"For Chicago baseball fans, two sides to the story" by Mike Dodd and Judy Keen.
I back the Cubs, UNLESS THEY PLAY THE SOX!!! Sox fan first, Cubs second.
The article says that the Cubs are known as a white-collar fan's team and its been 100 years since their last world championship and haven't been to a World Series since 1945.
The Sox are a blue-collar team whose 88-year-championship drought ended in 2005. They had last been in a World Series in 1959.
Representatives of baseball's two-team areas (NY City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) had made the same playoffs nine times since 1999. The last intercity World Series was New York in 2000.
I was hoping the Sox would be hot after they had lost first place in the last two weeks of the season, and had to win their last three games, including a make-up and playoff one to win the AL Central Division. That is how they went into the 2005 playoffs with a five game winning streak and then cruised to a 11-1 record to win it all. But, the Rays were pretty hot themselves.
The Cubs won the NL Central easily and had the best record in the National League.
Oh, Well, There's Always Next Year. --RoadDog
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