On the one hand, Ozzie Guillen was ticked off at his Cubs counterpart, manager Dusty Baker, for telling ESPN the Magazine he wasn’t rooting for the White Sox in the playoffs.
“That’s OK,” Guillen said in the Sun-Times before Game 3 of the 2005 World Series in Houston, his Sox two wins from 88-year-drought-ending glory. “We’ll see who owns Chicago now.”
But maybe Guillen already knew better, because earlier that October, when asked how a Sox championship might alter the balance of baseball prominence in a city where Cubs fandom clearly loomed larger, he’d opined, no doubt embellishing for effect, “You’ve got to win seven World Series in a row.