Miracles DO Happen! A "Goose Summer" for the 2009 Cubs!

Someday...

Someday...

Someday... and perhaps many more "Somedays" to come... until?

What scenario of a season do Cub Fans really believe will lead to our final "Someday"?

I have faithfully, loyally, devotedly followed and supported the Cubs for over 50 years.

1969 was worse than crushing--a major depressive funk until receiving my reply letter from Ernie Banks (on a wintry, but sunshiny bright first day back to begin my third trimester while at Western Illinois University)!

I have always believed that the kind of Cubs team needed to win it all, especially at Wrigley and on the road en route to a WS Championship, would require SPEED, GREAT DEFENSE, above average pitching, consistent and TIMELY hitting, and a manager who maintains an "even keel" with great players' support.

The 2008 season had many, if not all of these "ingredients"! Until the full-blown (pardon the pun) reversal in the pregame and Game One at Wrigley, when Crane Kenney, Lou, and the players all contributed to tanking.

I refuse, as always, to ever give up if there is even a remote possibility of the Cubs finally achieving their "MIracle" finish!

I hate looking back, lamenting, and second-guessing - at least until the season is finally over, or the Cubs are eliminated from contention.

Baseball, and especially Chicago Cubs baseball is a most erratic and unpredictable proposition. 

I also like to believe in the proposition that somehow the Cubs and Cub fans are "owed". Not in the sense that we can collect anytime we want.

Rather, the clock has been ticking for all of us, with an isolated lonely reminder plaque of Cubs WS glory buried inauspiciously next to the Pharmacology Building on the UIC's Westside campus.

Time is a dimensionless entity just like space - very hard to define and grasp.

I believe this is where "Miracles" can happen - in the dimensionless, undefined parameters of time and space.

It happened for the '69 Mets - it almost happened for the '69, '84, and 2003 Cubs!

Perhaps our Cubs Miracle will finally appear when we least expect it. The current scenario certainly meets this possibility.

The 2008 Cubs with 97 Regular Season wins did not fulfill any destiny or cruise to any glory in the postseason.

Out of nowhere, with little or no expectations - maybe, just maybe, this is the kind of environment in which the 2009 or a future Cubs team will shock the world!

Giving up, lamenting, and losing faith and hope are just not acceptable for me. I could never have survived as a Cubs Fan for over 50 years with those negative attributes.

I will ALWAYS celebrate the wins and look forward with hope and optimism that Someday... will arrive; and how sweet and gloriously ecstatic that day will be!!!

This Cubs team like many of the past is like gossamer - from Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition:  "a filmy cobweb floating in the air or spread on bushes or grass."

The origins of the word "gossamer" come from Middle and Old English (continued from Webster's). : literally "goose summer": with allusion to the warm period in fall (St. Martin's summer) when geese are in season and gossamer is chiefly noticed. 

Here's to gossamer for the 2009 Cubs and their fans - where our Someday... may just be heating up, however thin, and flimsy, but gossamer summer may becoming noticeable!

--- Dedicated to the memory, true grittiness, and never-say-die spirit of Goose Gossage!

Someday...