[ryancholden]

Just curious, why do you consider Chicago a fair weather town? If you are basing that on the White Sox I would agree but the Cubs haven't won anything since the stone ages and they have one of the highest attendances in all of baseball with a small field.

White Sox fans are what they are (and my family is full of them). They come out when the season is interesting.

I grew up, and continue to live with, crazy Cubs fans. They are everywhere. Like the plague. Just seem to have an heir about them that unless you are a Cubs fan, you don't really love baseball...because pure baseball fans root for the team with an old stadium, play games during the day, and have tradition. Most of them would say: If you are a Brewers fan, you just aren't successful enough to afford a Cubs ticket. If you are a Cardinals fan, you are a fair weather fan. If you are a White Sox fan, you are poor and trash.

I am usually a pretty tolerent person, and I know that there are decent Cubs fans out there, but the day-to-day, year-to-year drama and unreasonableness of the Cubs fans I have known for the last 20 years just KILL me.

So to answer your question, basically because I think if the Cubs didn't have this long World Series drought, if Sammy Sosa never juiced his self and his bat, and if frat boys weren't allowed in the stadium, I don't think the Cubs would have this whole romance about them.

:-)