When is the last time you attended an MLB game in Chicago?
Thought so...
Dude...I lived it.
Most of the real Cubs fans aren't at the game...they hang out at the same neighborhood tavern their grandfather did, watching the game on a 19" TV on a shelf in the corner of the bar...they live and die by them. Sure, there are posers at the game...those folks are not indicative of real Cubs fans.
Sox fan are students of the game, but if the team left town, they'd get over it.
Without having lived it, someone telling me about the underbelly of Chicago sports is about as freaking stoopid as me telling Slate about conditions on the ground in the sandbox.
You realize these two statements contradict each other? You're trying to tell me that I don't know about the fandom because I haven't been to a game, but then say all the "true" fans don't go to games.
Cubs fans are a bunch of hipster, douche bags who will forget about their team when they lose 95 games in a couple years.
