lately, my recent practice has been to spend my lunch hour quality time reading over on White Sox Interactive (“Totally Biased”) — today i stumbled across this thread about the unwritten rules of behavior at sox park. this comment nearly made me spit my coke out on my keyboard because of teh laughing.

Originally Posted by Jerko
That’s it. Whoever breaks any of these unwritten rules should be spanked with their cellphones by a person who is smoking and eating a hot dog with ketchup on it while doing the wave during play after throwing back a home run ball.

of course that would have been criminal because it would have gotten Diet Coke with Lime all over my loyal keyboard-bound companion:

my personal least favorite sox park tradition is the ritual chanting of “cubs suck.” (that’s with four syllables: “CU-ubs SU-uck!”) i admit that i started out a long time ago as a cubs fan (until i actually went to a cubs game), but this dislike isn’t because i secretly still harbor cub fandom tendencies — it’s mostly just a “dude, who cares?” thing. seriously, unless it’s a crosstown game? i don’t care about the cubs. i don’t care about their players, i’m not watching their game, i don’t care about their standings, and i’m sure as hell not at at their damn ballpark. and frankly, i think it makes sox fans look bad. like we don’t care enough to support our actual team instead of tearing the northsiders down. also, it’s just kinda tacky. so i’d be perfectly happy if that tradition died an ignomious, unmourned death.

of course it won’t, because the same sort of guys who come to a sox game in order to chant “cubs suck” are the same sort of guys who are generic, all-purpose dickheads.

ST play starts tomorrow! woo! your pal niqui is v. excited. (also, trivia: turns out DH jim thome is from p-town. limestone HS alum. so: you better hit well, or i’ll kidnap you and drop your ass down at o’brien field!)