November 6, 2016: It Happened

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Yes, I’m still on my Cubs high.  This might last for a while, but… at the very least, I will start to pay attention to and blog about other sporting events in Chicago soon.  I did watch the 2nd half of the Bears game last Monday night, a bit of one of the Bulls games last week, and OT with the Blackhawks Sunday night.  I will soon be zoning in to all of them… but for now, more Cubs.

It happened!  How the heck did it happen?  What did you do to make this happen?  It’s funny from talking to so many people and listening to people interviewed how many of us think we have an impact on what the result of the game would be.  In this case, we think that us doing something will result in the Cubs winning the World Series.  I’ve talked to people who wouldn’t turn on the game until the 8th inning because every time they watch the full game, the Cubs lose.  Then there are those people who will not watch at all due to the same reason.  I cannot NOT watch… but I have my own superstitions.

I’ve tried really hard not to, especially when it comes to the Cubs and winning the World Series.  I could seriously drive myself crazy.  What jersey should I wear today?  Should I watch in the living room or the bedroom?  If I watch in the living room, what side of the couch should I sit on?  Do I want my wife to watch the game with me or not?  That’s just the tip of the iceberg, but you get the picture.  I didn’t worry about any of that stuff… well, I did have one thing.

It was Sunday morning, and I was walking my dog.  I was in a pretty bad mood; the Cubs were down 3-1 to the Indians in the World Series.  I was thinking, how could this happen?  We should be pasting this team with their 2nd rate pitching that they are running out there after Kluber.  Where are the bats?  We need to come back.  We need to make this happen.  As the walk continued, my dog decided to do her business.  She has a few places that she takes a dump.  If she does it in this particular place, where she did on this morning, I will drop off the poop bag in the upcoming alley.  Sometimes, since I have to take a whole 20 steps to reach the dumpster, I decide to cut right through the alley, instead of walking back, and continuing around the block.  I decided to cut through the alley on this day.  And as I get about halfway through, there it was.  It was sitting right in middle of the alley.  As I picked it up, I remembered the old saying:  “See a penny pick it up, and all day long, you’ll have good luck.”  I always pick pennies up.

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So I will keep this penny forever, but of course, I do understand this probably didn’t determine the outcome of this series.  I would have had a better chance praying for the Cubs.  I pray a lot, but… I never pray for the Cubs to win.  I never pray for the Cubs in general.  I did pray for them Tuesday night after the Game 6 victory; this is how it went.  God, please give these guys the strength to play their best in Game 7, and please give us fans, the strength to deal with whatever the outcome is.  That was it.  A simple prayer.

So on Sunday night, when I went to mass, to thank God for all the blessings he has given to me, I thanked him for the Cubs World Series win.  Our pastor said he saw some of us with our Cubs gear on, and wondered if we saw his comment on Twitter, saying something like this:  for all of you who made those promises on Wednesday night, I’m looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.  I didn’t see his comment, and I didn’t make any promises, but there was no way in hell that I was NOT going to Church this Sunday.

The funny thing now, is that I feel like I have been “over blessed”… if that makes any sense.  Life’s been good to me so far.  I already have such a good life with countless blessings.  And now, I have seen the Cubs win the World Series.  I don’t know about you, but this is making me want to be better than ever in my life… do more good things for others… make a difference… all of the above.  It didn’t take seeing the Cubs win it all for me to feel like this, but it sure feels like it will motivate me to do something about it.  Or, maybe it will all wear off after a while… I also asked Sunday that it wouldn’t…

  1. MK

    Superstitions a plenty…HAHAHA. From what I wear to where I sit to what, or if, I drink. Yes, we think what we do matters, but it really does not. We just do these things because we want to think we are helping, or because we want the Cubs, or any of our other teams, to do so well. I was not in a good place after going down 3-1…who would be. I was in a worse place after the 2run hr to tie things at 6 in the 8th. The Cubs and I made it out of the darkness and into the Winner’a circle, and that is where we will be for awhile. It took so long to get there…to have the Cubs be the Champs, that I am in no hurry to change that. Prayers and thanks for it all! So many people got their wish…a Cubs World Series W!!! Do it again next year??? Sounds like a plan!
    GO CUBS GO!!!

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