I know there is still a lot of time left, but when it’s September and I wake up and the Cubs are in first place, it’s good reason to digress from the standard topics and pay homage. I posted this picture earlier this summer but then lost it when my server crashed and I suffered through almost a month without this Web log space. But that, of course, is nothing compared to the suffering that’s been occuring on the North side for…how many years now?
I could tell you stories about 1969, about sending in contest entries to the Sun-Times in August picking the exact date and time the Cubs would clinch the pennant, only to watch them sink into the abyss in September. 
Ironically, I was going through some old stuff this weekend and pulled out an old “Cub Power” t-shirt from a moldy old box. Fittingly, it looked like it had been designed by someone on a bad acid trip, all sorts of psychadelic colors and designs. I washed it up and threw it on Tucker, and incredibly, it fit perfectly. Hmmmm…
Stuff like that always makes Cubs fans hope. There are never enough omens that this could be the year. I know many games are left to be played, but hey, it’s September. The Cubs are in first. At least there’s something right with the world…
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