I've got some Chicago White Sox fans in a fix. My Cubs-fan neighbor let me buy some of his long-time Wrigley Field season tickets. The neighbor wasn't interested in seeing American League teams – as if his Cubs will ever see an AL team when it really counts, in October – so he gave me my choice of interleague games.
I scooped up three to see the Cubs vs. Twins for a Sunday afternoon. My friend and his son are both big-time Sox fans, which in this city (Chicago) usually means they're major Cubs-haters.
For this one game, though, they're going to be root-root-rooting for the Cub-bies, to beat Minnesota. For a true White Sox fan, the Twinkies may be hated even more than the poor Cubs. After all, they're in the same division as “Our Sox,” as former Red Sox player and current White Sox announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson calls them. Too often, Ron Gardenhire's guys defeat that South Side team when it really counts. I'm quite sure Ozzie Guillen wants to beat them more than his cross-town “rivals.”
I wrote the check for the tickets tonight, and laid them on the counter. I had to take a snap. Then of course I had to shoot it out to my friend via e-mail. I call a tweak like this PhotoBlasting. When my pal sees these tickets, he might finally realize what he's gotten himself into. They're so cute, aren't they?
To cover our Sox pride, I thought I could print up some T-shirts that say on the front “Sox Fans AND Cubs Fans” and then on the back they would say “TODAY ONLY.!”
I'm sure you've PhotoBlasted somebody yourself with your iPhone, possibly, using the built-in e-mail-a-picture-right-now function? Just touching the bottom left part of a photo in the gallery opens up the e-mail. It's so easy, I sometimes like to send a shot as an excuse to keep in touch, with minimal typing.
What's your favorite story of sending a photo to somebody? Did you get a response?
Just keep those stories clean – this is a family blog, right?
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P.S. I'm a new blogger on the block, so let me know who you are. I look forward to more of a conversation than a monologue...
Hey Tim, Photoblasting
Hey Tim,
Photoblasting concept is great, but let's get real. Are you a Cubs or Sox fan or both. Check out my photo. It was the one home game in the playoffs in 2007 against Arizona. (I actually, like Sox also, but am a big Cub fan).
Cubs or Sox? PC or Mac?
I am a converted Cubs fan, Hal. I even caught a Cubs home run at Wrigley (so I didn't have to throw it back) in my days as a bleacher bum. I could go to a game for under $10, el ride included. The old days.
Then I was captured by the bad-boy Sox on the south side. Changed my allegiance, and then actually moved south of the city. Must admit that I love that Wrigley Field vibe -- except now it's more like the world's biggest frat party than a shrine for baseball.
In Chicago, though, you have to pick sides. How many people do you know who use both a Mac and a PC?
But if those Cubs ever win the big one, though, watch out. When the White Sox won it all in 2005, Chicagoans said "can they repeat?"
It's a Cubs (and Bears) town and probably always will be. With all that cross-town talk, I'm looking forward to my visit to the north side.
I grew near Chicago area, and
I grew near Chicago area, and actually remember the 1959 White Sox World Series with Nellie Fox, Luis A., Big Kiu, Minnie M, Billy P., Sherm L., etc. However, I was always fundamentally a Cub fan, but never understood why you couldn't be for both teams. All the apps for baseball on the iPhone plus "photoblogging" really make the iPhone/iPod touch a great toy for the sports fan.
Cubs-Sox rivalry
I saw Minnie Minoso at an event for Sox season ticket holders last year -- still looking great, 50 years after that great run to the World Series. (However, I was born and raised in Detroit as a Tigers fan, so I don't quite remember those days.)
In 2005 Ozzie Guillen addressed that anti-Sox, anti-Cubs attitude by saying that when they go on the road the uniforms for both teams say "Chicago," not "North Side" or "South Side." It's strange to have just one-half of a town rooting for a team in the W.S. but that was the case.
Fortunately, my team won it that year. How about those Cubs??
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