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Any team that knocks out the Flubbies and Yankees in one postseason is OK with me. Good Luck in 2004 guys.

Thank You Marlins!!! Now and forever my favorite NL team!!! That was UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!! I'm buying a Marlins hat tomorrow (didn't want to jinx them by buying one beforehand) and will wear it often this fall and in the future. That might annoy a few people here in Chi-town. :shifty Best of luck in the Series!!! Every Sox fan will be pulling for you!

Since this is the Sox fan support thread, I'll throw my two cents in about the Chicago baseball rivalry and why it's so important for us that the Marlins take out the Baby Blue losers. My grandfather was born after the Sox won their last World Series (1917), lived his entire life, and died without ever seeing them win one. My dad is nearing 60, was in high school when they last made the Series (1959), and hasn't seen one since. Me? I just turned 30. I've seen all of 3 Sox playoff appearances in my lifetime (83, 93, 2000). In those 3 years, the Sox won a grand total of ZERO home games. And the scary thing is, I'm one of the lucky ones. Yes, 1 postseason every 10 years is about as good a ratio as there is for any living White Sox fan right now. To say this team doesn't win much is putting it mildly. So how do we deal with all this losing? It aint easy, that's for sure. The Red Sox have turned their eons of losing into some epic, pseudo-poetic myth. The Curse of the Bambino and all that crap. And they never tire of telling you about it, either. If they ever do win it all you have to wonder if they'd even be happy about it; their whole identity would be gone. The Cubs have done something even more nauseating - turned losing into something cute. "We're the Lovable Losers." "Isn't losing cute, tee hee." No it isn't, you morons. This is what we see on a daily basis and a big reason so many of us hate the Cubs. Meanwhile, we as Sox fans suffer. In silence. We won't talk your ear off about how miserable things are (how many casual baseball fans have any idea that our championship drought is actually LONGER than Boston's?). And we sure as heck don't think losing is cute. "Wait 'til next year" is not in our vocabulary. We just want to win, period. One of the few things that make Sox losing bearable is that the Cubs have managed to screw up far worse than us. The Sox may not win anything important, but at least we usually field a decent team, better than the Cubs. The Cubs haven't managed back-to-back winning seasons since Nixon was in office. And only like 3 times since WW2. So you can see how horrid it is for us to see a team whose fanbase doesn't particularly care if they win or not suddenly pull a season like this out of their rear end. It's torture, plain and simple. And I haven't even said a word about how the Chicago/national media have gone into multiple Cubgasms already. That's just salt in the wound. So please Marlins, for all Sox fans alive and dead, as well as for the good people of Florida, BEAT THE CUBS!!!

Still room on the bandwagon?..... I won't lie, my first reason for posting my support here is due to hatred of all things Cubbie Blue. But, I would have been rooting for the Fish to win it all even if they weren't playing the Flubs. They are by far the most interesting story in MLB this postseason. I would love to see them torpedo all this nauseating Cubbie/Red Sox nonsense. Go Marlins!!! Half of Chicago is firmly behind you! :thumbup