isn't it better when the white sox win.  everything seems better.\nits just not the same lets say the yankees,St louis, atlanta, etc..  win.  because they win all the time.\nOr if the cubs win.  because thoes fans will just get drunk.  and most cubs fans are not born in chicago.\nAnd people like florida, arizona, colorado, etc... have only been around a short time.\n\nYea, life is better when the White Sox win.\nAnd we should all enjoy it.
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You should enjoy it because it might be 50+ years until Chicago sees another Championship team from ANY of the 4 major sports.
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The White Sox are a refined baseball team who's fans care about winning and losing...the Cubs need new leadership, on the field and off all their fans care about is talking on their cell phones and getting drunk. Hey don't these people have jobs to go to??
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It's more fair this way.  You wouldn't want a team to win on a fluke or lose on a bad game.  This way, we know which team is truly better.
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You hate the Yankees because you envy them.  You hate the fact that they have great success and your Angels and Dodgers don't.  Don't think for a moment that if your teams had the chance at that kind of success they wouldn't take it!  It's just a game.  Your question would have been better served if you just left out the hate part.  The answer has to do with the playoff structure.  Everyone knows that the regular season is almost meaningless.  All a team has to do is make the playoffs and at that point it becomes a crap shoot.  Whoever instituted the 5 games short series should have their head examined.  Every round should be the best of 7.  This years world series was a great example of the system going completely haywire.  The Cardinals (83-78) think that they are the "worlds best"!!  Are you kidding me??  Looks at Seattle a few years ago.  They won 116 games but got knocked out early.  Like it or not the Yankees are still the best team in baseball.  They are still the team everyone talks about more than any other.  There is nothing wrong with the Yankees but there is a great deal wrong with the playoff system.  There was a time when a team actually had to win the pennant out right in order to play in the world series.
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Maybe its the word "world" that confuses them.  Maybe they equate the truly global "World Cup" with their "world series" of baseball.  \nSomone please tell me 'cos I can't seem to remember how many people from around the world tune into the "world" series.\nI think its just instilled in the american psyche to think they are the best, they are the world.
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I am!!!\n\nBeing a Tiger Fan For Life, I never would have thought this was possible.\n\nHow can ANYONE NOT be impressed???\n\nThey have the BEST record in baseball right now. Are 20 games OVER .500 (not UNDER)!!!\n\nIt's like all the pieces are coming together. I believe Jim Leyland is the key. He says it's the players, but he's keeping the players focused on TODAY, not next week.\n\nThey have won 14 out of thier last 15, and are currently \n2 1/2 games in front of the white sox.\n\nWill this last all season? I hope so, but I doubt it.\n\nThe white sox are just too good a team for us to over take (as much as I would love that!).\n\nWe might win the wild card...but seriously i would be very happy if they won 82=84 games (considering they havent seen .500 in 12 years).\n\nWe;ll see...the next 10 games will show us just how good they really are (2 more with Cleveland, 4 with the evil yankees, and 3 with the equally evil red sox).
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Technically every team has a chance of winning, the Red Sox have a leginament chance but because the player in a power division i doubt they may even make the playoffs. The AL East is loaded with teams that can easily win any other divison. Back to the Sox, Yes they have some of the best pitching and once they get Foulke on a roll they will be unstopable. But they arent very good fielders. Manny isnt very fast, Crisp is hurt and Nixon has had his moments so they dont have much luck in the outfield. Loretta is a decent 2B and Varitek is great but overrated. Lowell their other infielder is slipping from his Marlin days and isnt a productive of a hitter anymore. The Sox dont have much hitting anymore. Ortiz and Rameriz and well thats it. Ortiz is supposably on steriods not because he just got good but he has been hitting double the homers since his twins days and ever since i checked isnt not that easy to hit over the green monster. Even though they are in first now they play in the hands down best divison and there are over 100 games left, i dont think they will hold up.
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well i cant help you there becuz the fact of the matter is, there is NO team more unlucky than the cubs.\n\n     But this year, evn luck has to take a back seat to the lack of talent this team has, to put in another way, this teams suckiness has finally caught up to its unluckiness and combined to form some type of UBER-DISASTROUS-SUCKY-UNLUCKY team.\n\nso sorry pal. \n\nbut be sure to give me holler when you want the reasons they suck. ive got billions.
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Hear, Hear!! You are a prophet who sees not only the flaws in the fans who reason that the Yankees are the best, but also who sees into the future to see that nothing is going to change for them. So many of us will be enjoying the next 100 years while the Yankees continue to waste money trying to buy a pennant, living on their past glory, and falling flat on their faces.\n\nHave to call it as I see it too.
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Fair weather fans--what a concept.  I can certainly understand having more than one team you like, and not everyone can easily develop an attachment to one team.  However, what's the point of shifting your loyalties at the drop of a hat.  Maybe it's indicative of the transient nature of professional athletes today.  Most seem to have no loyalty other than a bigger payday.
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Of course it is the begining of the season hope spring eternal who thought the angels would win in 2002 or the marlins in 03 or the d'backs in 01 or the twins in 91 or 87 or the oakland a's would build a great team in the early 70's or that the yankees would not once go to the post season from 1982-1995. Go Rockies Go Twins Go Devil Rays Go Pirates Good Luck and DO NOT LOSE HOPE UNTIL ALL HOPE IS LOST. Of course the White Sox Suck Eggs and wont win NOTHING
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As a die hard WHITE SOX fan I am hoping that they DO!  After our tremendous year last year and KNOWING what it is like to live in a town that has two teams but the other ALWAYS get the atttention (but for you at least the Yankees win  it still baffels me cuz the Cubs suck) I am rooting for them all the way!!   If the White Sox don't make it (? and I usually root for AL) and the METS do, I want you to know that there will be at least one person in Chicago that will be supporting them.  Screw the Yankees and Red Sox!  If you are a Mets fan -  God you have to be SICK AND TIRED of them!!!!!!!!!!!  Good luck!
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man someone needs to lay off the crack pipe sayin the tigers are better then the sox. look at the records timmie. who has the best record in baseball that would be the sox. is this even a real question because they are the defending champs and have the best record end of story
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you are a traitor.. you can't be fan of both teams.. that's like being a fan of Yankees and the Mets. Of course, if one loses and the other survives to win the championships, you can be fan of that team temporarily and then switch back to the team you were routing for.
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SHOULD isn't even a question. They didn't win it. What they COULD have done differently is an issue. If they did pitch better then maybe they could have won. The truth of the matter is that their pitching was terrible and they lost.
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inconsistent is worse for the fans.  horrible teams sometimes have great fans, but an inconsistent team will draw rage.  especially if they were good at some point in the recent past.
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Well as you may or may not know, spring trsaining results do not mean a thing once the season opens up. In fact, I don't even look at the grapefruit or cactus league standings as they mean absolutely nothing in a normal year. This year they may mean even less as most of the top players from each team participated in the WBC. The white sox less than sterling 8-19 record all gets blown away in another week. \n\nWhen the end of the season comes to a close the white sox wil lbe right there with the indians and the Twins fighting it out for the Central title.\n\nI personally think their starting pitching is a tad overated.