Count Your Blessings
Welll, Christmas time is finally here. A time to celebrate with your loved ones. Jim Hendry must have been a good boy because he got what he always wanted; A Japanese right fielder with a high OPS and who can play defense. Hopefully Santa or Andy MacPhail can drop off Eric Bedard also! The enjoyable thing about the holidays is it gives you time to reflect. I remember watching the classic Christmas movie "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and listening to Bing sing "If you are worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep."
A lot of people want to know how we can be Cubs fans after all those years of losing and heartcrushing defeats. Sometimes I wonder myself, but then I look back at all those pictures I have taken over the years. Pictur
es that show smiling faces; families, friends, even strangers. There is something strange and beautiful about being a Cubs fan that is hard for the non-Cubs fan to understand. Wrigley may look like an old ballpark, falling apart, but to us Cubs fans, in brings back memories of years past. It reminds us of our youth, and of Cubs fans who have gone to the old box 
seats in the sky. There is the joy of seeing the generations of Cubs fans who pass down this joy, and the hope that every Opening Day brings. I hope to see the Cubs win it all, I hope that I am there to see it, and I hope I am still young enough to enjoy the celebration! Right now, I am just glad to be a Cubs fan and couldn’t imagine rooting for any other team in any other sport than the Cubs.
Merry Christmas!
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Very well said, Cub fans for life. Ramon
Whenever I wonder why I am a Cubs fan, I think about: being at beautiful Wrigley Field, surrounded by other die-hard fans screaming ‘Let’s go Cubbies!’, Singing ‘Go Cubs Go’ with 40,000+ fans after a Cubs win, attending a Cubs game in Milwaukee or Colorado and seeing half the fans wearing Cubbie blue, and thinking about what a celebration it’s going to be when the Cubs finally win it all. GO CUBS!!!!
Other teams have fans who jump on their team’s bandwagon when their team does well. It happens all the time: Rockies, D-backs, etc. The fans leave when their teams stinks again. They never die with their team.
Cubs fans live with their team, and they die with their team. Even after heartwrenching defeats, they never give up on the Cubs. Now think about it; will it ever mean as much to all these fair-weather fans for their team to win it all as it will for Cubs fans?? NO WAY. If you don’t die with your team, it never will mean anything to you when they win. And believe me, when the Cubs finally go all the way, IT’S GOING TO BE ONE HECK OF A PARTY!