Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune got some comments from Cubs manager Lou Piniella that I don't think he meant to come out they way they did...but they did, and it didn't take Ozzie Guillen long to respond with a dead on the money remark.
Here's Lou:
"Look what the City Series does over here. I saw where the Dodgers came in the other night, a good baseball
team, and 22,000 people were here. The Cubs are in town for the City
Series and there's 40,000 some people here. Look, let's look at it from
a different standpoint than just the baseball standpoint."
So as Paul asked do the Sox need the Cubs to help them draw fans?
Not according to Ozzie:
"Because our fans are not stupid like Cubs fans. They know we're (expletive)."
Guillen said Cubs fans will go watch any game at Wrigley Field because "Wrigley Field is just a bar."
My take:
Fact...the Sox have had three of their top six highest attendance figures in franchise history in the past three seasons with the fewest number drawn at 2,500,648.
Sox fans saw an organization cut payroll by the second largest amount in MLB this off season. They've seen a team struggle to show any consistency AND the White Sox decided to charge "premium" prices for L.A. in the middle of the week. That's why they passed in large numbers.
There's your answer Lou.
Me thinks Lou, the Cub organization and Cub fans need to get off the 'attendance' kick. That doesn't win a championship, if it did the Cubs might actually win something and the way this season is again shaping up for them, it may be the ONLY way they could ever win something.2005 Lou, that's all that needs to be said as opposed to 1908 (and counting...)
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