The Catholic Church has its first American pope made it inevitable that we would dissect its sports fandom. However, there was a certain confusion with regard to Pope Leo XIV.
Leo, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has become one of Chicago's most famous natives in the world with his elevation in the papacy. Born at Mercy hospital in Chicago and raised in nearby Dolton, he is the first pope to come from the United States
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A native of Chicago should naturally be a fan of local teams, but it becomes difficult when the city has two MLB clubs.
Since he served as a altar boy in a church on the southern side of the city, we initially thought that Pope Leo would be a fan of the White Sox of Chicago, but ABC News complicated things by things by indicating that it is in fact the rare fan of cubs due south.
Let's just say that the cubs ran with that.
However, less than an hour later, Leo's brother offered contradictory information to WGN News from Chicago (video above):
“He has never been, never a fan of the cubs, so I don't know where it came from. He was always a fan of the Sox. Our mother was a fan of the cubs. I don't know, maybe it hung on, and our father was a fan of cardinals, so I don't know where it came from.
While a fan of cubs on the south side would have been strange, a fan of cubs and a fan of cardinals raising a White Sox fan seems to have his own background frame.
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In addition, the Chicago Sun-Totes later found an image of the new pope at the World Series 2005, in which the White Sox beat the Astros of Houston for their first title in 88 years.
Naturally, the White Sox have quickly moved to claim the type of victory that has been rare for them in recent years.
Leo also obtained a boost from the old All-Star White Sox and the Fox Aj Pierzynski diffuser.
So, to summarize, an MLB team has just claimed the Pope as his fan when he is, in fact, a supporter of their crosstown rival, which is a sentence that we have not been published at the start of the day.
But it does not matter. It is not as if the Cubs had ever had to worry about a curse or anything.
