Y’all have to know by now how I feel about Chicago’s North Side baseball team. Attending a game at Wrigley a couple weekends ago didn’t change anything. For all the improvements that have been made at Wrigley Field, one remains undone: Getting rid of that hideous chain link fence at the top of the outfield wall! I grew up watching both teams, and remember well how much better the ivied walls looked without the junkyard treatment up top. The fence was installed in 1970 to keep fans from interfering. Well, guess what! Now the fence routinely interferes—keeping outfielders from making great plays and yielding some of the cheapest home runs this side of right field in Yankee Stadium or Pesky’s Pole at Fenway. (It’d be nice to see relievers warming up in the bullpen in the flesh instead of on video, too.)
I say all this to reassure you that, no, I have not been been infected by a bad case of the Ricketts; this is the real Mike Knezovich saying this: Right now the Cubs and their fans are getting a raw deal!
I know they’re struggling, but they’re in the middle of probably the season’s last, best pennant race in all of Major League Baseball.
But if I turn on sports radio or anything Chicago sports, it’s all about…Bears angst. This after endless droning on, filling time, repeating stories again and again…about the Bears…before a game had been played.
There’s a lot more football left, and there’s plenty of time to blab on about it. The Cubs are in a pennant race, for crying out loud. So far all we know about the Bears is they are disappointing.
Aside from that, football is…insane. The league-wide injury report this morning was hideous. I think it may have overtaken boxing and MMA for overall savagery.
How much do I love baseball and don’t care about the NFL? So much that I’d rather read/hear/view sports reporters talk about the Cubs than the Bears. That’s how much.
With that, I’ll leave you with the timeless wisdom of a guy who had it right:
Hey Mike, are missing something at the end of the column? I see the George Carlin link on the internet.
Al, the embedded YouTube image should be the last thing you see in the blog.
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