#30 Wrigley Field
January 27, 2008 by mylosh
One of the best things someone can do to gain the respect and trust of a white person, is to attend a baseball game with them at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs. When most people think of the Chicago Cubs they think of tradition, ivy covered walls, Fergie Jenkins & Harry Caray. A more accurate representation would be khaki shorts, frat boys & rich white business men on their iphones. The 1980s television show Perfect Strangers best illustrates this point. In the opening credits, foreigner Balky Bartokomous is taken to Wrigley Field. This was more or less symbolic of what Balky had to do, to understand white America.
Ethnic person (third from left) gaining the trust of white people
Reasons why white people like Wrigley Field
1. Experiencing tradition at a high cost
2. Located on the North Side
3. Its Trendy
4. Comfortable Surroundings
1. Experiencing tradition at a high cost
The main reason why people flock to Wrigley Field each year is the fact that it is one of the few ballparks that is trapped in time. People come to experience baseball tradition (although the definition of tradition when it comes to baseball is sketchy, remember the sport did not integrate until 1947). However this tradition comes at a high cost, which white people don’t mind. On prime dates a ticket in the bleachers costs $45. But this does not deter rich white people from enjoying the “simpler things” in life. Wrigley is an old stadium where people still pee in troths, but white people love paying top dollar to do this. They also like being around “real baseball fans”, even though most of the people in the bleachers are drunk rich frat kids that aren’t from Chicago and have no idea who Ernie Banks is. Compare that to the left field pavilion in Dodger Stadium , where tickets are $11 and the people are much more fun and less irritating However the left field pavilion is generally the hispanic section which makes it less of a tourist attraction than the Wrigley bleachers (Unlike having black friends see post #14, it is not yet cool to have Hispanic friends)
2. Located on the North Side
Wrigley Field is located on the North Side of Chicago. The North side is basically the gentrified, trendy part of Chicago. Also many white people listen to Jim Croce (whom most think is black) and the perception of most non-Chicago people (the majority of Cubs fans) of the Windy city is through the song “Bad. bad, Leroy Brown”
Well the south side of chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named leroy brown
This is one of the main reasons why people do not venture to watch the Chicago White Sox. They are located on the South Side which is viewed as the “baddest part of town” where of course black people named “Leroy” live.
3. Its Trendy
Liking the Cubs right now is trendy. They haven’t won a World Series since 1908, they are located on the North Side and celebrities like them. Bill Murray, John Cusak, and Hillary Clinton (although she flip flops between them and the Yankees) are all Cubs fans. One should keep up to date on things that are trendy in order to befriend more white people. ie) eating expensive Indian food, shopping Organic, or going on a wild rose detox. So for the upcoming season, try to know at least one player on the Chicago Cubs and defend Mark Prior at all costs
4. Comfortable Surroundings
Wrigley Field is known as the Friendly Confines and white people feel comfortable there because other than Ronnie Woo Woo, most Cubs fans are white (and we are not talking about the white people that go to White Sox games). Next to a Dave Matthews Band reunion concert, one can not find a bigger collection of khaki shorts and golf shirts than the Wrigley Bleachers. Also once a friend of mine was sitting in the bleachers next to a pretty girl with an LSU sweater. She was talking about Baton Rouge and said “I love it but I can’t stand all the n%#%%ers” TRUE STORY. What is most disturbing is the fact that she said this in such a nonchalant manner. Simply put, this individual from the south finally found a place in the North where she felt her views were acceptable. I sense that if she were sitting in the Left Field Pavallion at Dodger Stadium, she would not be so open about her true feelings.
So if you find it difficult to befriend white people, it doesn’t help to know a little something about the Cubs and to suggest a trip to Wrigley Field.
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Ever been to the White Sox ball park? Those people are bitchy.
I go for the tradition, the ivy covered walls, and the crumbling bleachers at Wrigley
Even if the Cubs are supposedly cursed by a goat.
I thought white people are nostalagic for minor league baseball. Watch the movie “Bull Durham” and you’ll see. The problem is, the minors are small towns in the sticks or suburbs home to non-affluent white families with young kids, or worse (rednecks), the rural character of white folk.
I live in Miami and found that post to be humorous, but only because I know that to be true and not what is reported by the media and other fans. They don’t go to Marlins games because of the lack of public transportation, but they’re always listening on the radio and watching the games on TV. This will change when they move into their new ballpark.
As for this post, as a Cuban Cubs fan who’s been to wrigley once, I sat on the first base side, great friendly fans. Didn’t sit in the bleachers, and glad I didn’t. The bleachers are filled with people who are there because its a “scene” but with the struggles this season that’s slowly eroding, in fact yesterday’s game looked like a pre-1984 game, half empty bleachers.
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….I’m back, SWPL. This is Michael who ends his sigs with the “+” for No reason. I’m watching the MLB all-star game live from Angel Stadium in Anaheim. I’m from Indio in the Cal. desert on the other side of the mountain (San Jacinto) from annablue of Hemet…and grew up visiting my Dad’s in Palm Springs not far from the Angels’ spring training camp in the late 80s (when spring break parties were around). About the Cubs fans in the west coast, the Chicago Cubs and the Wrigley company has west coast foundations in the 1920′s to 50′s, when the Cubs’ came by L.A. or Long Beach for spring training, and the Wrigley family owned an island Santa Catalina, 26 miles offshore, and the rich partied in the lil’ fishing village of Avalon. Anyways…GO Angels! +
True. I never understood why people west of the Mississippi would give 2 poops about the Cubs. I grew up a Dodger fan in Hemet and saw them as no natural rivals or anything. But I knew this guy in high school. He was a dirt poor farmer’s kid, who’s family was so empoverished, and had so many kids, half of them had to camp outside in tents in their backyard. This guy literally wore the same clothes to school everyday. I felt bad for him. But one thing he had and CHERISHED, was his stupid Cubs hat, and talked endlessly about how great the Cubs were, and how much tradition they had, etc. Dude had never been to Chicago in his life! lol Poor white pride runs deep, I guess.
Astute and funny observations. It should also be noted, though, that there are a lot of people now living in Chicago who moved there from Michigan, due to the lack of jobs in that state. Anyone who has grown up in Michigan as a Detroit Tigers fan has essentially spent his/her childhood hating the Yankees and the White Sox. No real Michiganian, white or otherwise, moves to Chicago and begins rooting for the hated Sox–not when there’s another MLB franchise in town.
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