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Podcast: Sox Populi - A Chicago White Sox podcast
Episode: The Soxivus celebration begins ... Why are you still a White Sox fan?
Description: Welcome to Year 3 of the South Side Sox Soxivus Celebration!We kick off the festivities by looking within, to discover what it is about this team that holds our fandom. (Our companion piece to this podcast is available to read, featuring some writers not appearing on this podcast.)
Brian kicks things off, with a Joycean paean about the tragic sensibility of fandom, inextricable from romantic optimism. If you haven’t read The Dubliners, that means in part that he’s surprised the White Sox still matter to him — but they do
Chrystal is sunk too deep into b...