An interesting email from a friend this morning

by Madison Cub Fan on Oct 4, 2008 12:30 PM CDT

As I read this email, it really made me think. For him 03 playoffs were so much fun, 04 obviously just the opposite as he grew up in NYC and has been a Yankee fan all his life.

How we live in the present, from moment to moment, though we plan for the future, baseball is one game at a time. Tonight the Cubs have the pleasure and the right to play a game of baseball, and the fans can enjoy watching or listening to the 2008 version of the cubbies. To win the World Series will take winning 11 games by some team this year. Each game is played one at a time. The 2004 Bosox were down 3 to 0 to Yanks, and were losing game 4, yet won 8 in a row to win it all. So tonight is a big game just like any other playoff game. A must win just makes the stakes that much higher. With backs to the wall they must go all out, hold nothing back, and play it one pitch at a time. I know there will be a lot of Cubs fans at Dodger Stadium tonight. I went to a few Cubs games there over the years.

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Nice email.

I think we will see a very good Cubs team win the game tonight.

Let's take three...starting today!!

by sue369 on Oct 4, 2008 1:34 PM CDT reply actions

I received an email from a regular reader of this site...

… who sent me the following that appeared on mlb.com today (sorry, I don’t have the link handy):

From MLB.com:

I live in Chicago. I’m not a Cubs fan. I’m not a White Sox fan. I moved here from Boston. I ran through the streets of Red Sox Nation when they clinched the AL from the Yankees in ‘04. I’m not a Red Sox fan. I grew up in Detroit. I’ve watched the Tigers come back from many decades of disappointment. I’m not a Tigers fan. My grandpa played baseball all of his life. He lives in Minnesota and still waves his “Homer Hanky.” I’m not a Twins fan.

I’m a baseball fan.

October is my favorite month every year. This is when I see hearts broken and dreams come true. Being a fan of no team in particular allows me to see the game for what it is. It’s incredible.

I wish more people would view it that way. It doesn’t matter where you grew up, where you live or who your team is, if you love the game, you respect its consequences and you welcome its promises. If your team becomes a religion, you miss the point.

Love the game and it will love you back.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Oct 4, 2008 1:45 PM CDT reply actions

That is so true.

Let's take three...starting today!!

by sue369 on Oct 4, 2008 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions

And, with no rooting interest

you sit there as if you were an outsider, looking in. That’s how reporters cover a team.

That’s how I sit in the stands at a game I have no rooting interest in. As of now, that’s the way it is 90% of the games I’ve gone to for over the last 25 years, if the Cubs were not in SD, or LA, or SF.

I prefer having a rooting interest.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Oct 4, 2008 3:45 PM CDT reply actions