April 1, 2016: It’s Time

It’s time.  It’s time to break out the Cubs gear for the year.  Friday morning came, and I broke out the Cubs hat.  Baseball season is almost here.

Now a short 3 days away, it’s time to get this thing started.  No more predictions.  No more meaningless spring training games.  No more shenanigans…. OK, there will be more of those, but the games that count are about to begin.

It’s the longest season of any major sport:  162 games.  It’s those 162 games that prove who is BS’ing and who is legit.  Everybody starts off at 0-0.  The predictions mean nothing.  The roster on paper doesn’t earn you victories.  It’s between those white lines where the game is played, and every single game counts.

Yes, every single game.  Whether it’s a game in early April that is thrown away… lost never to be regained, or a game at the end of September, when everybody is staring at the standings, it could come down to one.  There are no throwaway games.  Every loss is recorded.  Each year one or more of the races is decided by less than couple games.  Don’t take anything for granted.

And oh yeah, last year doesn’t matter.  You don’t get to roll over any of those wins.  You don’t get an automatic postseason berth because you were there the previous year.  Yes, all that experience gained is invaluable, but now you have to do it all over again.  And this time, you’re expected to do better. 

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Next year is here.  Although it’s all about this year now, all the predictions, the expectations, it is the continuance of something special, and that shouldn’t end this year, regardless of the 2016 result.  This is shaping up to be one of the best runs in Cubs history.

As long as it gets topped off with that World Series title.  There have been teams with great runs before, that never have checked off that ultimate box.  There have been teams with great runs before, that only won 1 World Series title.  Let me tell you, that 1 seems like 10.  That’s all I’m asking for… just one.

This morning I put on a Cubs t-shirt.  That’s not all I wore, since it’s 30 something degrees this morning, but I have it on.  It certainly does not feel like baseball season, as the snow flurries begin to fall.  But, I will be wearing Cubs paraphenelia every day the next few days leading up to Monday night.  Weather or not, the anticipation is almost over.

And on Monday night, when game time rolls around,  I will have my Cubs jersey on for the first time since last October.  We committ ourselves again to this 162 game season.  We remember the bad times… and the good times; we hope for more of the latter.  It’s that time of year again… bleeding Cubbie blue is what we do.  It’s time.