The Good Things

I have no idea if the White Sox are going to blow their shot at the playoffs. If they do, not only will friends Jordan, Vic and Ross never be able to look me in the eye again and say anything bad about the Cubs, but it will be the worst collapse in major league history.

Blowing the division would be bad enough. But, if they fail to even win the Wild Card, that would basically be the same as blowing two divisions in one year.

On the plus side, some White Sox fans do have one thing right: They will not remember a bunch of losers fondly. Now, I'm too young to remember 1969, but I will tell you that I don't have good memories of 1984, 1989, 1998 and 2003. I remember two things: Fun watching a team win and having that fun be more than offset by the suckiness of losing.

If Cubs fans didn't exalt their losers, perhaps we wouldn't be saddled with excuses about how 2005 was blown because Sammy Sosa was a distraction. Because Korey couldn't hit.

Sox fans won't be talking about this team in 30 years if they blow it. Hell. They won't be talking about them on October 5th if they blow it.

They have that attitude right. We Cubs fans could learn from them.