Well, it's that time again here in the Windy City...

If anyone wants to see the history of our beautiful city, all that they need to do is look at our two teams. Traditionally, the Cubs are the team which was supported by the German immigrants who lived on the North side of our city... while the Sox were the team of the Irish immingrants who inhabited the South side. Now, there are still some people of German descent in Wrigleyville, and plenty of Irish-Americans (including Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the infamous Richard J. Daley - let me just say that the son is far better than the father) who support the Sox. Way back in the day, when Chicago was in it's infancy, the South side Irish and the North Side Germans were actually quite detested by the people who had already been in the city for over a generation.

But something brought them together... the majority of Protestants in the city were disturbed by the way that the Catholic Irish and Germans would drink on Sundays, having little outdoor parties. They were so upset by it that they attempted to ban drinking on Sundays in the city of Chicago. The Germans and the Irish banded together and defeated that proposal.

The moral of the story is that we here in Chicago should remember how the two groups banded together as one for a common purpose, and do it again to bring us some good baseball. Chicago is now the home of immigrants of all different nationalities, and the two teams no longer belong to only one ethnicity.

I'm excited to see this... but we all know whose side I'm on!