Finally, it’s refreshing to hear from a renewed baseball rivalry that doesn’t include the words “Boston” or “New York.” Having gone through calendars worth of Sox-Yanks “Hype Up Segments” on ESPN, we can finally shine a new spotlight away from the northeast.

And nobody prepared better than The Chicago Sun-Tribune — or at least, in concept — who anticipated a whole new bandwagon of horny sports blog followers. They did the grease work (err… at least tried) and assembled enough evidence to determine who’s got the hotter fans in The Town That Kanye West Built: Cubbies or White Sox?

After gaining a lot of attention when first debuting the idea on their site, I was initially intrigued by the Sun-Tribune’s efforts in a sort-of new angle on rivalries.

Then I clicked their findings, and almost puked in my mouth a little bit. As Kanye would say, “feeling like Katrina with no FEMA.”

The description “Hottest Cubs Fans” was a bit misleading. Chitown certainly has some absolute dime shows out there; I’ve got a few college friends worthy of being crowned Hottest Damn Baseball Fan Period. But the Sun-Tribune threw together everybody, regardless of age — yes, there was a 70-year-old — or gender in a group, then slapped on a “hottest” name tag.

Nobody in the general field was hotter than a 8 — certainly no mind-blowers — but here’s what I salvaged.

The White Sox slide show still wasn’t impressive and required a lot of sifting.

However, the head-to-head feature panned out well (Cubs fan gets a 9):

She’s enough to sway my vote. I’ll go with the North Side. You?