Diego,
The Chicago Cubs are a HUGE team in the US. The biggest baseball teams, I feel, are the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals and the Braves (in the South mostly as they were all there was East of the Missisippi for such a long time, and because of TBS/TNT).
There are so many transplants across the country who originated from the Midwest. My family is a good example: all four of my grandparents are from Illinois (actually all eight if you count who my parents remarried after their divorce), and they all ended up elsewhere across the country. My step-grandfather is the biggest Cubs fan I knew, and he lived in Florida from his 20s on up. I think the Cubs are the biggest draw (along with the Cardinals, who are in a similar part of the country) on the road in the National League. Where I live (San Diego), Cubs games sell out no sweat. Most of the other games don't
The only thing stopping them from being the biggest team in the US is the Yankees, and the Cubs' inability to win jack sh*t. They regularly have a HUGE payroll, and can always get a marquee player (Soriano, Derek Lee for example) no matter how bad they've been. If Mark Prior and Kerry Wood both hadn't flopped harder than a beached whale, they'd have a world series title on the North Side right now.
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