{"id":385553,"date":"2025-10-17T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/385553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:45:40","slug":"chicago-white-sox-fan-pope-leo-trash-talks-cubs-fan-after-their-playoff-exit-they-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/385553\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox Fan Pope Leo Trash Talks Cubs Fan After Their Playoff Exit: \u2018They Lost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Leo XIV<\/a> delivered a holy heckle to one Chicago Cubs fan<\/a> who decided to yell \u201cGo Cubs!\u201d to him during a parade in Vatican City.<\/p>\n

\u201cHan perdido! They lost!\u201d replied Leo, a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, in Spanish and English.<\/p>\n

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The Cubs fell to the San Diego Padres in the National League Wild Card Series to end their season earlier this month. The White Sox, for their part, lost more than 100 regular season games for the third straight year, finishing 60-102, 27 games out of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n

The White Sox shared a video of the exchange via X<\/a>, showing Leo, 70, atop the popemobile, waving to the crowd as the Cubs fan chastised him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our Pope,\u201d the caption read.<\/p>\n

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Leo became the first American pope when he ascended to the papacy in May, following the death of Pope Francis<\/a> at age 88. The Chicago native has been open about his sports fandom, particularly his allegiance to the South Siders.<\/p>\n

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The now-Pope notably attended Game 1 of the 2005 World Series, in which the White Sox defeated the Houston Astros on their way to their first championship in 88 years. The team, in turn, has embraced its most famous fan, unveiling a mural of him next to the section he sat in that night.<\/p>\n

The mural shows a current depiction of the Pope, born Robert Prevost, with an image of him at that game in the upper right corner. The image is from the Fox broadcast in the 9th inning, which caught the future pontiff in a crowd reaction shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sat in row 19, seat 2,\u201d Nick Schmit told The Athletic<\/a> in May. (Schmit\u2019s father, Eddie Schmit Jr., brought Leo to the game.) \u201cMy dad always sat in row 19, seat 1. He never gave that seat up to anybody. That was his seat. So when he took people, those people would sit next to him, usually.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leo credited growing up in Chicago<\/a> amid the Cubs-White Sox rivalry for preparing him to navigate global diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt home, I grew up a White Sox fan, but my mother was a Cubs fan, so you couldn\u2019t be one of those fans that shut out the other side,\u201d he told Vatican reporter Elise Ann Allen in an interview for his upcoming biography in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned, even in sports, to have an open, dialogical, friendly and not angry competitive stance on things like that, because we might not have gotten dinner had we,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Leo was also spotted wearing a \u201847 branded White Sox cap at the Vatican in June. He said it was a gift from a couple who cheers for the Boston Red Sox. (He also publicly wore a \u201847 cap for his alma mater, Villanova University and is a fan of Wildcats basketball.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s the ultimate influencer,\u201d Patrick Cassidy, Vice President of Marketing at \u201847, told The Athletic<\/a> at the time. \u201cWhat the Pope is wearing is the exact model that a style-conscious fan can get on \u201847brand.com. That\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV delivered a holy heckle to one Chicago Cubs fan who decided to yell \u201cGo Cubs!\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,48,138,24,49,4245,161,54,4,6531,18,7654],"class_list":{"0":"post-385553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicagocubs","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-houston-astros","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","18":"tag-san-diego-padres","19":"tag-vatican-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115390285625168926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}