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I am rooting for the White Sox.
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Thank you.
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To the extent that I root for anyone at all. 4 reasons:
1. They are one of the original teams in baseball, so it is unlikely they will ever be forced into teal and mauve uniforms after some fit by the league that all the team uniforms are overly similar.
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They actually wore shorts in the '70s.
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2. Their curse is a more compelling story that the curse of the Bambino ever was in my book.
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Absolutely.
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3. I have yet to meet an annoying White Sox fan. I don't doubt that there are some, but clearly not in the quantities of annoying Yankees and/or Red Sox fans. Heck, Chicagians don't even rank in the top 3 for grating accents, so they start out at a annoying scale disadvantage.
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The accent is annoying. And the South Side isn't the classiest place in the world. It's not scary like people make it out to be, but the only time I go down there is for ballgames. I'm a 3rd generation Sox fan, and I wasn't raised anywhere near the South Side. Most White Sox fans probably think I'm a Cubs fan until I start screaming.
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4. Coltrane. When the White Sox are winning, I think of Coltrane, Sequels and Coltrane's frat boy friends out on the town, drinking some beer, watching some ball. I like to envision one of my fake internet friends happily watching the game that tends under most circumstances to bore me to tears.
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Thanks. Sequels and most of my friends are, unfortunately, Cubs fans. It will be a mixed marriage.* Worked for my parents though (Sox/Indians). Luckily, I have 2 good friends who are diehard Sox fans. That's enough.
*If we have a son, and he becomes a Cubs fan, I will make him wear a dress for the rest of his life.
