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How would you describe the White Sox franchise for people that aren't familiar with it?

Like, what's the experience like of being a White Sox fan?

We'll be gone.

It's like, what now?

What can fall on our head today?

That's Bob Strunk.

He's a retired public defender, and he's been rooting for the Chicago White Sox baseball team for more than 60 years.

Since 1959.

From the point of view of a diehard fan, the most important thing to understand about the White Sox is that they are not the Chicago Cubs.

The working class city people were the Sox fans, whereas the cub fan is some creature

that was dropped into the Chicago area that's all happy and giddy.

And you had a team actually marketing losing, lovable losers.

They'd feel part of some sort of cult, like a Save the Whales bunch to me.

The Cubs play on the north side of Chicago, an old-timey Wrigley field, with its hand-operated

scoreboard and ivy-covered outfield walls. The White Sox play on the south side. Their old stadium,

Comiskey Park, got demolished in 1991, which was maybe for the best.

Concrete falling, moldy smell.

They had some silly rock concert there once where part of the upper deck was in flames.

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