Cub fans are getting their facials, exfoliating and waiting till next year.
Posted on 10/28/2005 2:16:32 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
Cub fans are getting their facials, exfoliating and waiting till next year.
They have a sign up on wall of Comiskey, er CELLULAR Field that says something like "Crying is OK in baseball if it is because your eyes are stinging from the champagne."
Chief, can you put me on your ping list? Thanks.
I could handle lee in Red
Charles, thanks for all the pictures.
I watched the WGN coverage of the parade on my computer at work. I haven't lived in Chicagoland since 1979, when I was still a kid, but I still follow all of the teams. I'm not sure if this championship has really sunk in yet.
I'm so happy for my parents, who both grew up on the South Side. I'm happy for Chicago, they finally have a baseball champion!
And I'm especially happy for all those Sox fans who have spent their lives feeling like they're rooting for the more cursed and less beloved team in a two-cursed team town.
One question I have for Chicagoans, or any big city I guess - is there a lot of talk there, in bars and on local sports talk radio - of the importance of having a championship parade?
I live in Philly now, and here it always seems like what people here want most is that parade. I suppose it is representative of the championship, but here they talk about the "parade" as much as they talk about "getting the ring" or "winning the championship."
Is that common elsewhere?
That's cool. I'm an NL guy and I imagine that there weren't too many Cubs fans pretending to be lifelong Sox fans at the celebration. But a well-earned celebration it was!
Congratulations and have a nice winter Chicago!
Yo, Mike, I'm a Philly native (37 years). When the Flyers won the Cup in 1974 (aaagh!), 2 million people showed up at the parade! The Phillies and Sixers almost reached that mark for their singular championships. If the Eagles ever win the Supe, there will be a party like you've never seen!
So, I guess to answer your question....we want our teams to win it all so we can have a memorable party. It all goes hand in hand...and around here, it's like once in a lifetime.
Surprisingly little trouble. The Chicago fans have conducted themselves with a great deal of class.
Why?
I wasn't able to make it to the parade myself, but saw it on the Boob Tube. Swirling streams of confetti made it seem like a blizzard was underway down on LaSalle St.
I just hope that the Sox management is able to find a way to keep the team together for next year, but, deservedly so, the guys will be looking for a raise from the boss.
All the local TV channels -- except the eggheads at PBS -- covered the motorcade as it swung its way thru the near south side neighborhoods and into the Loop. It was way cool, reminding me of the last ticker-tape parade we had back in January of 1986 for the Bears. But that was a cold, cold day! However, I think there were more people by far in the Loop today than 20 years ago.
Even my diehard Cubs fan relatives were all cheering the Sox on.
And to think that the Sox were #1 from wire to wire and throughout the postseason still stuns me.
Cheers!
Not me. Remember? We're White Sox fans...we have day jobs to go to! /shameless shot at Cub fans and their early day games at home.
Actually - NO.
Remember it's not like 'we' aren't used to celebrating properly.
After all there were the SIX Bulls Championships and the 85 Bears Super Bowl win, so 'we're' not exactly loser city (and suburbs).
That being said Chicago proper sucks - Richie Daley has turned it into a little Beirut. But that's another matter - GO SOX!
I would be happy for Philly fans if and when one of their teams wins it all, because they deserve one, and me and my wife would go to the parade to see the celebration.
I was just wondering if fans in other towns like Cleveland or Boston talked so much in those specific terms - like the discussion during Smarty Jones' run of whether or not a Triple Crown deserved a parade, would that have happened in another big city, or is it just a Philly thing?
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