Why Doesn't Anyone Agonize Over The White Sox?

My Cubs have won 5 of their last 7 and are still sort of within striking distance of the Wild Card-leading Astros at 5 1/2 out, but there's not much time left and I'm not holding out much hope. Today on the radio I heard that song "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" (you know that one: "Do they still play the blues in Chicago/When Baseball season roll around?/When the snow melts away, do the Cubbies still play/In their ivy-covered burial ground?") and I took it as an omen that this will be the 97th year in a row without a World Series title.

However, the other day I read a really interesting article on Slate.com that got me wondering about something. Baseball's two great tragedies, the two franchises most lionized in their suffering and frustration are the Cubs and the Red Sox. I'm pretty sure that I heard somewhere that last year went pretty well for the Red Sox, but we all know the history. Though they suffer in different ways (the Cubs with constant futility, the Red Sox with coming so close over and over only to lose in the end), everyone knows that these are baseball's great cursed franchises, teams who's tortured histories are scrutinized and wailed over by legions of fans across America.
This begs the question--why does no one lament the sad fate of the Chicago White Sox, at least no one who's not on the South Side or in northern Indiana? The White Sox are one of baseball's great old franchises, they've gone without a World Series title longer than the BoSox and are only nine years short of the Cubs incredible number. And surely, they've got a better claim to a curse than either of the other two teams. I mean, these guys took money from gamblers to THROW THE WORLD SERIES!!! C'mon, that's gotta anger the baseball gods a lot more than kicking some stupid billy goat out of Wrigley Field.

Yet for some reason, we never hear about any White Sox Nation complaining about any Black Sox Curse. Why is that? Mike DeBonis, the author of the Slate article, postulates that it's a combination of factors, including an un-appealing ballpark, a lack of celebrity fans who flaunt their devotion so publicly, and most of all a lack of a cult of suffering that grew up around the Cubs and Red Sox. I'm sure these are all valid reasons, but I'm still curious. The White Sox look good this year, have the best record in the American League and could be poised to break one of sports' greatest championship droughts, and yet all of this has gotten hardly a peep out of the national media.