As always, he writes with passion - heartfelt - truthful.
He says it all - he says what I can't say:
this morning i realized that i might just have to start raising the money to buy the cubs or forever learn to live with this sick rotting nauseous feeling that is fermenting in the pit of my gut.what do you do when your dreams will never become realized?
where do you go when all the beer at wrigley wont satisfy?
the beer vendors at the friendly confines come right to your seat and pour two cupfulls at a time to numb the oncoming pain. and if you dont think its pain, youre high.
or a yankee fan.
the meek will inherit the earth but i dont want the damn earth, i want a ring.
i want to wear a hoodie that says cubs world champs on the front and fuckers on the back.
it seems like i want so little and i cant even have that. i dont care any more if i never get a car, or a house, or kids, or even a hot wife who wouldnt mind being nice once in a while.
ive completely given up on having a career of any substance.
....and he just kind of takes it from there....
The picture Tony posts of that Red Sox fan is ... dreadful. Just dreadful. I relate. I understand.
Posted by sheilai'm beginning to think that cubs and red sox fans define themselves by their collective misery.
i so wanted a cubs/sox series.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo at October 17, 2003 2:44 PMJimbo -
You're right.
i have often wondered who we would be without this collective memory of heartbreak?
I also know that Red Sox fans are proud of how we hang in there - we hang with our team - despite all of this. Proud of the HARDSHIP of being a Red Sox fan. I am trying to speak with irony - but I have to admit it is hard today.
I don't know what we would DO with ourselves if the "curse" was broken!! I'd love to find out, though.
Posted by: red at October 17, 2003 2:45 PMOh, and I so wanted a Cubs/Red Sox series too.
Posted by: red at October 17, 2003 2:51 PMthe pictures, devastating.
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if millions of souls have cried out at once and been silenced.
Posted by: john at October 17, 2003 6:57 PM