Thursday, November 12, 2009
Chicagoland / Sports This Is Why You Can't Have Anything Nice
Posted by Whet Moser on 11.12.09 at 11:22 AM
To: Cubs fans, Chicago media
From: A fan of your more sensible Central Division rivals
I realize that the departure of Sammy Sosa was acrimonious, but: YOU MUST CHILL. I HAVE HIDDEN YOUR KEYS.
And while I also realize that Sosa may have looked somewhat odd at a recent social function, and that journalism is expected to, for better or worse, enforce certain social norms by discouraging famous people from violating a (floating) limit of oddness - as a proxy for the behavior of the rest of society - but this continued judgmental obsession with the behavior of a former and formerly beloved employee of the Chicago Cubs is: also extremely unsettling.
You are collectively being the person who is Googling his or her ex years later to see if he or she is doing worse than you, and you need to collectively go to a bar or get a hobby because you are collectively bumming your friends out.
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The media are making a big deal out of this. We're merely following along. Way to continue the cycle.
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From now on, when I think of the second worst fans in baseball, I'll picture a bunch of bitter adolescents sitting, "by choice," in the parking lot of a Gas-N-Sip on a Saturday night, complaining about "bitches, man."
However, on a similar note, as a Broncos fan living in Chicago, I'm really enjoying watching Jay Cutler implode.
