HOLY COW...Cubs Win?

Yesterday I ended up going to the Chicago Cubs Game at Wrigley Field. It was a gorgeous day for baseball, and it definitely beat the alternative. It was a capacity crowd, and the fans were a little disallusioned by the Pirates jumping out to the early lead in the ball game. Because, as a Cubs fan, one of the earliest lessons we learn is not to get our hopes up to win games, God forbid win a World Series. (The last time a Cubs team did that was 96 years ago)! Well, as luck would have it, the Cubs not only came back in the game, but won easily! All in all a perfect end to the perfect day. Being a Cubs fan is all about tradition and the history of the game. They don't even have a jumbo-tron electronic scoreboard to entertain between innings...just the simple person operated scoreboard that uses ping pong balls to display the balls and strikes.

As much as being a Cubs fan is steeped in traditions, and there are many, probably the most important tradition of being a fan involves hating the "other" baseball club in Chicago, the White Sox. For many years, I was rather neutral to the whole mess, until I stopped to look around at all the White Sox Fans in this City that are jealous of their northside rivals. The reason stems to what I believe should be called "People Envy". No matter how bad the Cubs are year after year, they draw sell out crowds on a daily basis. The Sox however struggle to draw crickets to their games even though they are in first place in their league. They hate the Cubs and all they stand for. But not all is lost...Cubs Fans have united in recent years and really turn up the crosstown war up a skotch. Fan shirts like this caught my eye at the game yesterday...Classic!



Long Live the Cubs, and next year maybe here THIS year?????