Two sports posts consecutively. Sorry about that. My inner sports geek is coming out.
Everyone is a Cubs fan now because they are winning. If you ask these people who Ron Santo or Ryne Sandberg are they might give you a blank stare. No, I'm not a big Cubs fan. In fact I'm rooting for the Indians because I really like their manager, Terry Francona. This series will be incredibly interesting because it's Theo Epstein (a high up Cubs official) vs Terry Francona. As baseball fans can tell you the two men worked together to break the curse of the Bambino in Boston in 2004.
In 2004 the Red Sox gained a lot of fans who barely knew who Pedro Martinez and Johnny Damon were, much less who Dwight Evans, Carlton Fisk and Oil Can Boyd were. It was nice to see the Red Sox really capture a city (and in some ways, a country) with their counter culture and hip look-but I am sure it must have been frustrating to lifelong Red Sox fans to see so many people suddenly become die hard fans of their favorite sports team.
I get it, in sports everyone loves a winner. No one focuses on who came in second. In my view it's a lot like your favorite band suddenly crossing over to achieve mainstream success. You've spent your weekends going to dingy bars and clubs when they could only draw fifteen people a show because you really love their music. Suddenly when they get some mainstream success you are happy for them because it's nice to see them get some accolades-but you are also a bit like "Where were you guys when they were not popular?"
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