For the uninitiated, no Chicago sports lore is more pithy than the legendary tirade by Cubs manager Lee Elia in 1983. His team was off to an inauspicious 5-14 start and the fans were already in full negativity despite the early point of the season. Elia ripped into the day-game only fans--Wrigley did not put lights in for several more years-- as unemployed bums, stating “...the motherf*%kers don't even work, that's why they're out at the f*&king game..." The audio is definitely worth a listen (not work or child safe.) Elia, despite a World Series Championship (not with the Cubs), has yet to live down his wonderful meltdown moment at Wrigley.
Fast forward to 2007 with Lou Piniella at the helm of the most storied losing franchise in the history of professional sports.
Sweet Lou, who has been known to get his Mediterranean blood a-boiling over the years, has lately been showing signs of a mantle plume within the crater. This could be a toxic concoction.
While White Sox fans have little to cheer about these days, we can sit patiently and wait for the Schradenfreude of a beautiful Northside eruption.
Wrigley: where managers go to commit career suicide.
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