Its been ages since I ripped on Peter Gammons so I may as well break the dry spell by sharing a direct quote from Mr. Gammons on this morning’s “Mike & Mike In The Morning” show:
“The White Sox have become a national team. They’re as national as any team other than the Yankees, Red Sox and Cubs.”
What? What does that even mean? First of all, the White Sox are absolutely not a national team. How do I know? Here in New York, no one thinks about the White Sox, nobody cares about the White Sox and nobody talks about the White Sox. If they’re not talked about in New York then, by definition, they’re not a national team.
Secondly, Gammons’s sentence doesn’t even make sense. He’s creating degrees of “national-ness”, with the Yanks/Red Sox/Cubs as the most national and then placing the White Sox right below them. But what other teams are “as national” as the White Sox, other than the aforementioned three? What the hell is this idiot talking about?
The only reason the White Sox get any national attention is because their manager is one of the most bigoted and self-involved figures in all of professional sports. Beyond the negative attention that Ozzie Guillen attracts to the team, nobody pays attention to the other baseball team from Chicago.
“The White Sox have become a national team. They’re as national as any team other than the Yankees, Red Sox and Cubs.”
What? What does that even mean? First of all, the White Sox are absolutely not a national team. How do I know? Here in New York, no one thinks about the White Sox, nobody cares about the White Sox and nobody talks about the White Sox. If they’re not talked about in New York then, by definition, they’re not a national team.
Secondly, Gammons’s sentence doesn’t even make sense. He’s creating degrees of “national-ness”, with the Yanks/Red Sox/Cubs as the most national and then placing the White Sox right below them. But what other teams are “as national” as the White Sox, other than the aforementioned three? What the hell is this idiot talking about?
The only reason the White Sox get any national attention is because their manager is one of the most bigoted and self-involved figures in all of professional sports. Beyond the negative attention that Ozzie Guillen attracts to the team, nobody pays attention to the other baseball team from Chicago.
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