Sing the Praises of The Cubs, But not TV

We have all met the cool “hipsters” who will be the first to shout out that they don’t watch anything on television, and we all agree that we know they actually do.I am becoming one of those people, not because I want people to think I don’t watch television, but because I don’t like most of the shows on television.

I hate “Reality TV.” And I have given up on most sitcoms, and don’t like the crime scene investigator shows. Really, I don’t like most shows on free TV, with the exception of “Family Guy” and the ever so (un)popular (depending on who you ask) “24”.The shows I actually do watch are on cable stations, like FX, HBO and ShowTime. These shows are not only better written and acted, but they can get away with more language and content, thus making the shows more entertaining.

The nice thing is these shows are on only for two months at a time, so you don’t have to commit to a full season of episodes, not knowing when they will air new episodes and reruns.One of my favorite shows, “Rescue Me,” should be starting this month, but because of the writers strike it is being moved back until March. So now, for the summer, I might become a “hipster” and stop watching the junk on TV and read one of the four or five books I have been meaning to pick up for the last few months.

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This week, I have been strutting around the South Side with an extra smile. Just because my beloved Cubs swept the Sox in a three game series for the second time in two years. I realize my tune might change by the time you read this because game the first contest of the three-game series will be going on at U.S. Cellular Field.What a weekend series the first set of games were.

The Cubs came from behind in two of the three games, something they have done a lot of this year. Then Sunday came and the Sox just never got clutch hitting, something that has happened to them a lot this year.I predict the Cubs will take the season series by at least winning one of the games at the Cell.

I hope they take two out of three just so I can rub it in all my South Side friends’ faces.I think this weekend, at least twice, all of us South Side Cubs fans — and I know there are a lot of you out there — will be singing, “Go Cubs Go” through-out U.S. Cellular Field.I also know that in the great scheme of things these three-game series don’t mean that much to either team. Neither team will win or lose their division because of interleague play in June. It is just nice that last year the Cubs took five out of six, and have started this year with a three-game sweep.It is weird living on the South Side wearing Cubs gear during these weekends.

I am use to most of the insults Sox fans say to me about me and the Cubs. Most Sox fans hint at my sexuality for being a Cubs fan. I am not offended because I know Sox fans don’t know any better, and that is all they can think of to try to insult me. The insults are all the same, and they reference the fact the Sox won the World Series in 2005.

While I can’t dispute the Sox won the World Series in ’05, the other insults are just childish and dumb.Never mind the fact that most Cubs fans are die-hard fans yet get the reputation that they don’t care about the game and just go to Wrigley Field to drink.

While that may be the case for some Cubs fan, I would guess that just as many Sox fans don’t care about the game and are just there because it is something cool to do.Right now, I am happy the Cubs are in first place and have a great home record.

I know there is still a lot of the season left to be played, but I’m happy they beat the Sox and will have three more chances to beat them some more.For now, I will be singing, “Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go!...”