Paul Sullivan: Cubs Convention is on, while SoxFest remains off. Can an old tradition be revived?
by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
Dec 20, 2023
4 minutes
CHICAGO — The announcement of Cubs Convention events Monday helped Cubs fans temporarily forget about the team’s lack of any offseason signings, while simultaneously reminding White Sox fans that SoxFest remains on hiatus.
Fan fests have been an annual winter marketing tool for our two teams since the Cubs invented the genre in 1986 as a way to get people interested in the upcoming season and maybe sell a few tickets. The main difference between the two local fan fests is that Cubs fans generally want autographs and to be close to the players, while Sox fans want their pound of flesh from management
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