Balancing life and baseball as a Cub Fan.

In about a month, the defending World Champion Chicago Cubs are gonna take the field against the St. Louis Cardinals and all sense of balance will go out the window.
April 2, 2017 at 7:35 PM Central time I imagine it'll be Carlos Martinez throwing a fastball to Kyle Schwarber.
Cubs/Cardinals?
Schwarber up to bat?
Oh Em Gee.
I mean, it's already happening with balance leaning towards our favorite game.
My stupidstitions are already coming back - I read about David Price's elbow and now I can't step on a crack.
Those odd little conversations in elevators or with the cashier at the grocery store because you're wearing a Cubs hat.
People are putting their little car window W flags out.
Maybe a thousand tweets all saying what we already knew about Jon Lester (he's going to be the opening day starter in case you didn't hear).

Tomorrow (Saturday), the Cubs will be playing the Dodgers on WGN at 2:05 Chicago Time.
Which means about 1:58 I'll lose my balance.
Standing in front of the couch, all my body weight will shift to my ass end as I say goodbye Yin and hello Cubs.

I expect you'll do the same.

PS: Have you been turning on the Hawks lately? Hat tricks are sort of normal. I've seen 3 just recently. Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane are playing at a level that your stereo and my stereo can't go to. The other night against the Blues, the Hawks appeared to have so much speed and intensity that it was impossible to look away for even a moment because you'll miss something in that red blur. Anyway if you're not watching, you're missing something special. 
Those guys are good.
Nothing could be cooler than two World Champions in our city.

Comments

[Cire Ddot Nekliw]

Been plugged into the Hawks, man they are playing well. Saw where Rizzo got scratched yesterday, took me awhile to settle down. He's prolly been playing too much golf. No worries, gonna start seeing more of the regulars, have had no less than 5 Cardinal fans tell me to go poopie in my World Series hat. Really hope we break it off in their red arses.

[Bud]

I just had dinner with TWO Cardinals fans sitting next to me. They ain't happy...and that's a good thing!

One of them was sitting with about 20 people in my home watching WS game 7 last November. He grudgingly rooted for the Cubs. But now he says "you guys can't win two in a row".

I told him "we may not win it all twice in a row, but we can sure finish ahead of his Cardinals again!

They'll need more than Dexter Fowler!

[Tim@Cubby Blue]

Lots of scenarios pop up as soon as you hear "Rizzo scratched..."
But I prefer to stick my fingers in my ears and go "LALALALALALALALALA"

[Tim@Cubby Blue]

Can't wait for Cubs/Cardinal again.
You can bet somebody with a red hat we never heard of will turn into a superstar.
But I think there are a number of Cubs that can happen to.
Last year with all great press and the WS predictions that seemed to me to be a year early... it's both wonderful and weird to feel real confidence for maybe the first time in my life.