Hardly cordial hosts to the White Sox at Metrodome, the Minnesota Twins today unveiled a new TV spot trumpeting their move to Target Field and they can't resist taking a shot at the South Siders.
The ad entitled "Twins-portation," shows movers inside the new stadium unpacking Joe Mauer and other Twins players.
When two movers hoist a White Sox fan in an easy chair out of the truck, the foreman turns him back. The movers then toss him back in the truck.
Watch the commercial on the Twins official site.
The ad entitled "Twins-portation," shows movers inside the new stadium unpacking Joe Mauer and other Twins players.
When two movers hoist a White Sox fan in an easy chair out of the truck, the foreman turns him back. The movers then toss him back in the truck.
Watch the commercial on the Twins official site.
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Even though I'm a White Sox fan, Dale is correct. I can understand how one person prefers the Cubs and his friend prefers the Sox, so they rib each other, all in good fun. The hatred that has come as a result of the rivalry is ridiculous, especially when the backs-and-forth becomes so mean-spirited and hateful. The truth is, besides 2005, Chicago baseball has been a national joke. Truth be told, with the way 2006 unfolded, and with how bad the Sox played in the second half of 2005, as much as I enjoyed the World Series, it pretty much was "lightning in a bottle."
Let's not take little ribs from the Twins commercial so seriously. It's all in good fun.
I'm a Sox fan and that Twinkie commercial is hilarious! Nice job guys, see you in April!
I'm sorry, ChiCity4Life, but are the Cubs and White Sox laboring under a salary cap? No, I'm pretty sure they could spend just as much money as the Yankees if they had it to spend. And I'm also sure neither Chicago team would ever have considered using steroids to compete, isn't that right, Mr. Sosa? The Yankees build winners, Chicago builds runners-up.
And sure, bring up 2004. It hurts so much considering it was the Yankees' last chance to win a championship for a long...oh wait. Yeah, that hurts just as much as 2003 hurts for Cubs fans.
Believe it or not, I'm trying to help you guys. If White Sox fans cared as much about competing with teams like my Yankees as much as they cared about competing with loser franchises like the Cubs who aren't even in the same damn league, maybe they'd have more than one ring in the last 91 years to show for it. The Twins have TWO World Series Championships in that same time frame, and you guys are more interested in talking crap about the Cubs.
This is why Chicago is such a joke to the rest of the baseball world. Learn from it.
As a life long Sox fan I love this... The Sox should come back with one of their own where they place a twins fan on 35th Street and tell him starting walking east..
Lighten up folks its harmless.
A+ for spelling BDD. Your superiority to South siders is so clearly evident.
You know what Dale? My Dad's a Yankee fan too. Born and raised in Queens. He as well as I both know that since steroids and the lack of a salary cap the yankees havent put out a decent team since 78. You're a troll. Why dont you go play on a red sox site. Or dont you want to be reminded of 04?
Yankee fan by birth, Chicago resident by circumstance, Capitalist. Even if I was one of those bandwagon fans, it still wouldn't change the fact that the Yankees have as many World Series championships since 1996 as Chicago has altogether going back to 1876.
Taking a shor at a south sider is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Good for Dale, a fan of a team that won its 27th WS. Sounds like a know nothing, wannabe sports fan that gloms onto historically winning franchises rather than their own regional teams. I bet Dale is also a fan of Notre Dame football, the Dallas Cowboys or Pittsburg Steelers, the Lakers and the Red Wings . . . no wait, the Oilers.
If that's what it takes to make you happy Dale, good for you. Just keep in mind that the world still thinks you're a deutch-bag.
That's right, d roy, I do love you guys. I love it when you guys have your little Chicago baseball dong-waving contests about which neighborhood is more gay or more ghetto or whatever, because that's so important to how good your team is. Or when you post your "dear diary" crap about how being "more salt-of-the-earth" means your baseball team wins a World Series in a lightning-quick 88 years as opposed to waiting 101-plus years. And then the other losers come back with "but we draw more fans!" BFD, Hannah Montana draws more fans than both of you combined, and she could probably pitch a better game than Zambrano or Buehrle, too.
Meanwhile, those of us who have been blessed with an organization that knows how to field a winning team and makes anything less than excellence unacceptable just sit here and laugh at you.
And we're talking BASEball here, guys. I don't give a crap about the Knicks and they'll probably finish the season with the same results as the Bulls anyway - NOTHING.
White Sox fans remind me a lot of Red Sox fans: they take one or two years off from being pathetic and think they can start talking. No matter what color it is, the laundry still stinks, right?
to dale the big new york fan : why r u on a chicago web site u like us that much ? u better sit down and explain why the knicks " THE MECCA OF BASKETBALL " r the most pathetic team in the nba ? no tfranchise in chicago is as pathetic as the knicks. when it comes to sox fans u have the worlds biggest ghetto 4 a stadium (and im black) and u guys talk about that ring the way u do, because u know it will NEVER happen again
Chris on November 9, 2009 12:00 PM
Truth be told, White Sox fans maybe are a little bit more blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth kinda fans. When compared to the pinky-in-the-air, sipping tea kinda people, looking down on the "other" team in town like most Cubs fans, we Sox fans may seem a little bit trashy. But what has your "class and sophistication” gotten you in the last century Cubs fans?
A job
Class-less ad by a class-less organization - what's next for the twinkies - abuse of the snack food that they share a name with
Ah my fault Joe - I assumed you were a Cub fan since it's a Chicago paper and there are so many idiot Cub fans posting here. Don't kid yourself though - most Sox fans definitely hate your kind more than Cub fans. I know I do. So rather than 1908, you hold tight to '91 pal. Your team's post-season performance indicates that all you'll have to celebrate for some time now.
Mauer mows my lawn. People only rip at you when they have an inferiority complex, anyway. It's good that they feel the Sox are the team to beat in the division.
Who cares if it is an open-air stadium and will be cold? It's not like we need the stadium past the first week in October anyway. We either just miss the playoffs on the last day of the year or we lose in the first round. it's not like we'll be playing in late October.
No surprise here, an article about the Minnesota Twins taking a shot at the White Sox and White Sox fans immediately start dipping into the "gay/yuppie/frat boy" Cubs-fan insults. Whoever said the White Sox and Twins would be a great rivalry if it wasn't for the White Sox-fan obsession with the other Chicago team was dead-on. Harmon Killebrew himself could insult you and you'd all be calling him a "Northside gay boy" or whatever.
Speaking as a fan of a team with 27 World Championships under its collective belt, it always makes me laugh to see Chicago baseball fans argue over whose fan base is more pathetic. Looks like a dead heat from where I'm standing...LOL
Haven't Sox fans (and Cubs fans, too, for that matter) been roughed up enough by the box scores the last few years?
@Hey: what's wrong with gay people?
LTC - Thanks for proving my point. I'm a Twins fan, not a Cubs fan.
You hold on to 1908 Joe, because that's all you'll have for yet another century.
I am a Sox fan and just saw the video on twinsbaseball.com and I gotta say that it is a bit funny. I am not insecure to feel offended by the ad. And to Chris and Jake......you are both wrong. Cub fans are not pinky-in-the air types or frat boys. They are fans of the largest north side gay bar called Wrigley Field.
Take heart, Twins fans. Now that you are out of the Metrodome, you no longer have the best home field advantage in baseball. You no longer have to worry about fighting until the last game of the season in a division title race. Most likely, you'll be out of it by the All-Star break.
I was at a Sox-Twins game in July and some tough guy spit on me from the upper-deck. He only had enough manhood to do it knowing he was protected from the lower deck. All-in-all, Twins fans suck!
The Twins-Sox rivalry could be one of the top rivalries in the game, if White Sox fans weren't so busy hating the Cubs. The Twins will continue to dominate the division, indoors or out, because the White Sox can't develop their (not there Big Sox Fan) own players and have to sign older players as stop gaps. Hold on to 2005 Sox fans, because that's all you'll have for another 90 years.
Chris,
Which is it? Are we pinky-in-the-air, sipping tea kinda people or frat boys at the worlds largest beer garden? Pick a lane.
Truth be told, White Sox fans maybe are a little bit more blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth kinda fans. When compared to the pinky-in-the-air, sipping tea kinda people, looking down on the "other" team in town like most Cubs fans, we Sox fans may seem a little bit trashy. But what has your "class and sophistication” gotten you in the last century Cubs fans? NOTHING, that’s what. Call me trashy, call me uncouth, call me the scourge of the earth, I’ll take being a “trashy” Sox fan knowing that my teams is able to show something for its trouble, a World Series championship.
Sounds like a funny commercial, what's everyone all angry about? White Sox 2009 attendance 28,200 per game 16th out 30 teams. That's not that bad, a little more than 15k anyway.
Thats why the Twins got there ass kick by NY,Sox bring back "Dye", Kenny is an ass
U.S. Cellular Field is often the White Trash Capital of America on those rare occasions when the White Sox draw crowds over 15,000. Ditto the most drunks in one location in the entire nation.
Bones and MNM- you are both trash. Look in the mirror. If you're both CUB fans- you are a true disgrace to MLB fans everywhere. Please do get over YOURSELVES and buy a bit of intelligence and class!
Here's your answer Bones: just as many as are greeted the same way at Wrigley Field and numerous other stadiums around the country. Get over yourself.
easy target.... White Sox fans are the trash of MLB fans. How many of us that are fans of other teams that come and fill their half empty stadium are greeted with profanity and obnoxious behavior? They deserve this type of swipe....
Should have taken him to the dumpster because White Sox fans are trash.
Now, there's sportsmanship for you! Speaking of sportsmanship, I'm sure if Ozzie made this, it would be a Cub in the chair and he would have faced a much more dire fate....kinda makes me appreciate this existing ad! heh heh heh....
They'll be begging Sox fans to fill the joint when the weather is sooooo cold up there in the OPEN-AIR facility that NO ONE SHOWS UP.
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to make that stadium open-air should have his head examined.
The Sox are going to win at least 3 games more per season up there then they did in the dome. That's going to make a HUGE difference most years.
Are the brains already frozen in Minnesota? Didn't think it was that cold up there yet. Maybe they have nothing better to do.