As I watch postseason baseball as a Cubs fan this year, I cannot help but feel anticipation and excitement for a potential Cubs World Series victory. It has been over 100 years (1908) since the Cubs last won, and I know that me and other Cubs fans would be both relieved and ecstatic at the same time. A long overdue championship would be exactly what Cubs fans and the city of Chicago needed.
However, with all the attention on the Cubs success this year, it is easy to forget that the Cubs have an inner-city rival in the White Sox. Even easier to forget is that the White Sox won the World Series themselves in 2005. Before this, the last baseball championship Chicago had seen was the 1917 White Sox. For 88 years Chicago sports fans had been without a baseball championship.
While I am hoping for a Cubs championship this year to end the team's personal drought, it is easy to overlook the strife baseball fans in Chicago faced for more than eight decades. Certainly, I am no White Sox fan, but I remember hoping they would pull it out back in 2005 as I am sure some White Sox fans are hoping of the Cubs this year. The cross town rivalry can be heated, but after so many years of mutual struggle, sometimes it is best to put differences aside and enjoy relevant Chicago baseball.
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