White Plains’ 4th Best Personal Blog

This is exactly how I feel about the current run of luck being experienced by Boston-area sports fans. It’s just getting ridiculous.

As a Cubs fan, of course I would like nothing better than for the North Siders to win a World Series in my lifetime. I am, however, slightly afraid that if that were to happen, there would be an absurd surge of Cubs hats everywhere (worn by people, the majority of whom can’t even name a handful of players on the team). In my view, this is what’s happened with the Red Sox. There was a front-page USA Today article by Paul White a couple of months ago chronicling the recent explosion of Red Sox Nation. It was headlined “America’s new home team.” I can’t link to it because USA Today makes you pay for its archives, but you get the idea. I want my team to win, but maybe not at any cost. Cubs fans already have a bad enough reputation.