Congratulations Chicago Cub fans.  You swept the Chicago White Sox.  That's right, your team, which is virtually unbeatable at home, beat a probable .500 team leading a weak division.  And you know what you get for that (besides a sore sternum from beating your scrawny, yuppie chest)  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

There is no trophy, no parade, no extended sports centers for beating the White Sox.  There is no world championship merchandise.  Those three wins and $6.25 only get you a latte at your precious coffee bar. No DVDs of your team pouring champaign on each other in celebration.  Granted, you won the battle.  But, speaking from experience, it's not the battle that White Sox fans are interested in winning.  We want to win the war.

So, hoist your Old Styles, enjoy your Brie and chardonnay, but remember that beating the White Sox is not the be all and end all.  Remember, your manager had a team that won 116 games a few years ago and got bounced out in the second round of the playoffs.  Remember in 2003, you couldn't execute a routine double play that would have gotten you to the World Series.  Remember in 2007, you got swept out of the playoffs.

Remember that while 2005 is fresh in most Sox fans minds, there are few that remember 1908.

So, please, by all means, be your smug arrogant, obnoxious, braggadocios selves.  Stumble out of the Cubby Bear or Ray's Bleachers with your taunts and your brooms.  We don't care.  Because we have the one thing you long for.  Come back when you earn your own.  Then maybe we'll give a damn.