Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

We didn't think we'd ever write about Jay Mariotti again because once you've seen a paramecium under a microscope, why look again? It wiggles, it eats, it dies. The guy will write anything to get a reaction out of people, then write the opposite the next day, and responding to him just feeds the organism. It's a formula, and it's boring. Also, he's the best example we've ever seen of the fact that being an asshole can give you heart disease. So feeding into the thing he does is just a contribution to a protracted suicide, and that's just a messy and disagreeable business. But Mariotti, who has all the moral authority of a leech, wrote a blog entry preaching that White Sox fans should grow up and back the Cubs, so we thought we'd chime in.

All we have to say is something Jay might read over in Roeper's column:

We sing the songs our fathers sang when they were growing up
Rebel songs of Erin's Isle in the South Side Irish Pubs
And when it comes to baseball, we have two favorite clubs
The G0-Go White Sox and — whoever plays the Cubs.

It's bigger and older than Jay Mariotti can even imagine. Even if that team and its private newspaper hadn't been spewing effuent in our direction for the last quarter century, telling us to grow up and back the Cubs is like telling us to grow up and back toe fungus. Unsightly, uncomfortable, and covering our city with an icky yellow crust. Not gonna happen. Unlike Mariotti, we have clarity.