Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports: Say it ain’t Sosa! Sammy cheers for Heat over Bulls

Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports Latest Big League Stew - MLB from Yahoo! Sports Say it ain’t Sosa! Sammy cheers for Heat over Bulls 25 May 2011, 5:53 pm Sammy Sosa has been persona non grata in Chicago ever since he sped away from the Cubs on the last day of the 2004 season, a fact the slugger was still crying about last fall even though it has been a purgatory of his own making. Well, Slammin' Sammy, this certainly won't heal a thing: Yes, America, that was Sosa who appeared on your television screens on Tuesday night, cheering the Miami Heat so eagerly and obviously that even current Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro took note while watching in the team's postgame clubhouse. No worries, Sammy, it's not like we filled your pockets so you could even afford to bear Witness to the rise of LeBron's Evil Empire. Go ahead, enjoy yourself. Cheer away! OK, so I'm only just kidding because we've known for awhile now that Sosa really likes his courtside seats in Miami, the city he now calls home. It's not like he just showed up at the game to spite Chicago. He appears to be one of the true basketball fans in Miami. (You know, the type that comes dressed like they're attending a joint Great Gatsby dress-up party/mass cult suicide at a South Florida yacht club instead of an NBA playoff game.) Still, don't think Sosa's siding with the wrong team won't go unnoticed here in Chicago. We're the same people, after all, that once threatened to run Mike Ditka out on a rail when he initially declined to pledge an allegiance to either the Chicago Bears or New Orleans Saints before the NFC Championship a few years back. MJ's not going to be happy either, because did Sosa see His Airness rooting for the Florida Marlins in 2004? Michael Jordan, after all, had moved on to teams other than the Chicago Bulls by then. No, he did not see MJ rooting for a team not from Chicago, even though his White Sox ties could have given him a reason to stay away from the 2003 Cubs. Come to think of it, though, I suppose it's possible that Sosa could have been an undercover basketball operative for the Florida teams all along. Remind me how many games Tracy McGrady played in a Bulls uniform after he hit Wrigley Field on his ill-fated wooing tour way back when? Yep, that's just what I thought. * * * Note: Before y'all up and leave an angry comment, go back and read the line in this tongue-'n-cheek piece where I said I was just kidding. I really don't care what basketball team Sammy Sosa — or anyone, really — prefers to support. Or ignore that part entirely and choose to believe that I really and truly thought Sosa was secretly working for the Orlando Magic. Your choice. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.