Black Sox Fans
I've been away from Chicago long enough now so that I can't claim it as home anymore. Still, I did live there for 12 years, so I understand that the White Sox winning the World Series is an enormous deal for the South Side, and beyond. And I've still got enough emotional connection to Chicago to be pissed off at Joe Buck. As the Sox cruised toward their destiny tonight, with one out in the 9th, Mr. Buck started naming off South Side neighborhoods. He got them right: Bridgeport, Hyde Park, Back Of The Yards, and a couple of others. He then mentioned how the South Side is home to many different ethnic groups: Irish-American, Polish, Lithuanian....and then he stopped.
How in the world can a grown man in the sports business talk about the South Side of Chicago and possibly not mention that black people live there? Or hundreds of thousands of Mexicans? Or, you know, people from non-Caucasian ethnic groups? To the seven people who are reading this, even though you already agree with me, let this serve as moral corrective. Joe Buck rhymes with Dumb Fuck.