[KDawgCometh]

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And the Cubs will go back to being the front page news on the Chicago Trib and Sun-Times sports sections and first game talked about in the evening news like it has always been.

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uh, wrong. anyone who has spent a lot of time in chicago knows that chicago is a bears town first then baseball. The bears are always front page news

the cubs only have been selling out wrigley only since 84. Up until then, the cubs had a hard time getting more then 10K fans to go to wrigley. Its fashionable in chicago to be a cubs fan, and there are tons of "fans" who couldn't care less about the game that is going on when they go to that arhcaic park that is known as wrigley

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Uggh. This is a Cubs vs. Sox discussion, not a Cubs vs. Sox vs. Bears discussion. Of course the Bears are front page news, I was saying the Cubs get more media coverage than the Sox(and no not right now) but next season they will again.

It's pretty difficult to sell out 81 home games when all your games are played during the day. They didn't get lights until 1988.

Yes, some people go to Wrigley just to get drunk and they sit in the bleachers, that is not the entire ballpark. It's funny how Sox fans are coming out of the woodwork now that they are good. For what it's worth New Comiskey/The Cell was voted among the 5 worst ballparks for many years.

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well, I grew up in the north burbs being a sox fan, so it annoys me just as much with all of these "fans" coming out of the woodwork. Comisky is a lot better now then it used to be. I went there two years ago and was impressed with the additions that were made.

I still have my stub somewhere for when I was at the opening of the ballpark when the tigers beat the living hell out of us, and have been going to games since I was 8(1988) and still love the old comisky to death

the fact is this, there are a lot of real cubs fans, but, I'd say that a very significant amount go to the games because its fashionable to go there. When I go to wrigley for a game I notice a lot of people not paying atteniton to the game and just getting drunk and goofing around.

I respect real cubs fans, but I have very little patience for many of the "fans" that try to claim that they're cubs fans