09-16-2009, 09:08 PM
<!--quoteo(post=63359:date=Sep 16 2009, 06:58 PM:name=jeffy)-->QUOTE (jeffy @ Sep 16 2009, 06:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Jstraw: just out of curiousity, how long have you followed the cubs?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
40 years...with wildly varying intensity...25 years with my heart in it...around 10 years paying attention to stuff like winter meetings and maybe 5 giving a shit about stats.
My point about not giving up is that the Cubs have always tested a fan's resolve. Giving up on a season is fine...it's sensible. But Cubs fans...look where Butch was with this team two weeks ago and look at him today....and he knows damn well he's probably going to get his heart broken for his trouble.
I'm not saying that giving up on the season means someone isn't a fan. I'm saying that giving a damn when you don't have a living relative that can remember winning it all means you are one.
In spite of how this season will probably end and in spite of the farm system and the contracts and the Cajuns and Lou losing his fire...just the prospect of a new owner means, well...everything.
We'll hang our hats on anything. We don't give up.
40 years...with wildly varying intensity...25 years with my heart in it...around 10 years paying attention to stuff like winter meetings and maybe 5 giving a shit about stats.
My point about not giving up is that the Cubs have always tested a fan's resolve. Giving up on a season is fine...it's sensible. But Cubs fans...look where Butch was with this team two weeks ago and look at him today....and he knows damn well he's probably going to get his heart broken for his trouble.
I'm not saying that giving up on the season means someone isn't a fan. I'm saying that giving a damn when you don't have a living relative that can remember winning it all means you are one.
In spite of how this season will probably end and in spite of the farm system and the contracts and the Cajuns and Lou losing his fire...just the prospect of a new owner means, well...everything.
We'll hang our hats on anything. We don't give up.