Poll of the Month

Every month, DTF will have an editorial that has an indirect relation to the Greek community. This month, DTF officially announces that the Chicago White Sox is the official baseball team of the site.

In the Greek community, most of the members in fraternities or sororities have a favorite baseball team. In Illinois State University, most of the frat brothers and sorority sisters favor teams such as the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and the Chicago White Sox. Out of all these teams, DTF prefers the Chicago White Sox for several reasons.

First, Down To Frat was created in the state of Illinois. Even though the Chicago Cubs might have been a more popular choice, DTF favors the Chicago White Sox. It is difficult to root for the Chicago Cubs because the majority of the people in Illinois are Cubs fans. A lot of these fans can be considered as a “bandwagon” fan because their friends and family are Cubs fans. This is not a legitimate reason to root for the Cubs. However, in the case of DTF, we choose to root for the Chicago White Sox because we love being the “underdogs.” It is more satisfying to root for the “second baseball team in Chicago”, especially if they have proven that they are resilient and do not care if “experts” have ruled that they are not competitive. It was even better when the Chicago White Sox won the World Series in 2005 because majority of the Cubs fans arrogantly predicted that the White Sox are group of failures. However, DTF is not a fan of the Chicago White Sox due to this reason.

The Chicago White Sox are a better team for several reasons. First, Ozzie Guillen is easily the most interesting and knowledgeable baseball manager compared to Lou Piniella. In comparison to the Cubs’ roster, the White Sox have less talent with their batters and pitchers. Nonetheless, the Chicago White Sox have found ways to be a success. This success can be attributed to Ozzie Guillen. He has found a way to push his players to do better. Even though Ozzie Guillen might use questionable or unorthodox methods, he knows how to communicate and motivate his team. In addition, the Chicago White Sox general manager, Ken Williams, have a lot of faith and trust in Ozzie Guillen that he allows these methods to happen.

Second, Paul Konerko and Jim Thome are players that each “normal” person can relate to. Even though they make millions annually, both of these players show a lot of heart when they play. They never give out the impression that they are better than anybody else because they play professional baseball. In fact, they both show a tremendous amount of humility. Any baseball fan can see this humility, especially when Paul Konerko and Jim Thome talk to the media. They never forget to acknowledge that all of their success is because of their teammates and they are only trying to help the team win.

Lastly, Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs is one of the most ungrateful players that ever played in Major League Baseball. If anyone has forgotten, when Alfonso Soriano played for the Washington Nationals, he threatened to not play because the management team proposed to move him to play left field from his position of second base. He made such a big deal of this move even though, everyone knew that he plays poor defense as a second baseman. In addition, he did not want to move to left field because he felt that it would hurt his value, especially since he was going into free agency. He only stopped whining after receiving a huge contract from the Chicago Cubs and then he portrayed in the media that he is only moving for the good of the team.