Eric Zorn: Thanks, Ricketts family, for aiding my transition from Cubs fan to Sox fan
by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Jun 12, 2019
4 minutes
Converting to the White Sox has been rough, as I knew it would be.
When your allegiance to a team spans more than three decades, it's difficult to stop caring, to stop following the scores of their games on your phone, to stop lingering on their telecasts when channel surfing.
And it's also difficult to adopt a team to which you have been indifferent if not downright hostile for that same period of time - to start caring, to stop reflexively taking pleasure in their defeats and to begin making their games appointment viewing.
On Valentine's Day, I broke up with the Cubs.
They'd made
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