Please forgive me, I feel dirty. I went to Yankees Stadium yesterday. I figured, hey, the Cubs have a great chance to win. They had already lost two games and surely they wouldn't get swept. What was I thinking? I have to remember that I am a Cubs Fan. And, as such, I never get to see the Cubs do great things. That stinks, but that is the rub of being a Cub Fan.
Now, before anyone who is a Yankee's fan starts pelting my commentary here with expletives, remember your team has won 26 World Series and unless you've been to Wrigley Field, I don't want to hear your uninformed opinions.
Yes, Cubs fans tend to be Yuppies, but only because you need a lot of money to pay for parking. And any team is going to get fair weather fans. But, Harry Carrey was right, you can't beat fun at the OLD ballpark. Wrigley Field has a soul in addition to the Ivy. The place is small. All the seats have decent view, except for the ones behind the sky boxes and even there you only miss the bleachers. The scoreboard has human beings in it and every day the National Anthem is sung by a living breathing person, not a tape player. I guess that the Yankees just can't afford to hire someone to sing "God Bless America". Instead they played a recording of Kate Smith singing her signature anthem. Of course, she has been dead for 19 years. There was not much between inning trivia and definitely no car races on the screen. I couldn't see the right field from my seat over the right field and the only view I had of the neighborhood was a building belching black smoke.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that the Cubs are a business too. I know they charge too much for hot dogs and cracker jack. The people who run it though haven't ruined it. There is still the ivy on the walls. Everyone feels close to the field. The neighborhood is visible from the stadium. Humans are employed to sing and talk and interact with the crowd. And I have never felt that I was going to fall out of my seat and hurl a hundred million feet down onto the field to my death. Wrigley Field is an institution. Wrigley is BASEBALL as it should be. How sad that the Yankee fans have never had a chance to feel that--to feel the love.
While you are at it, why not give Derek Lee a vote in the MLB all-star race? I gave him 25. What do you want? I am from Chicago where we vote early and vote often!
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