I Am Capable of Commitment. Just ask the Cubs.

A quick shot with my camera standing outside of
Wrigley in 2007 10 min. after we clinched it.

Any person who has spent more than 20 minutes around me will find out I'm a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. There are a lot of us ex-pats wandering around this nation now. We see each other in airports, bars in Austin, Texas and tiny Southern California beach towns. There's one thing that bands us all together: this is gonna be our year.

We fly across the country to see friends we grew up with to catch a game. We start aruguments or defuse uncomfortable topics by referencing "How Bout Them Cubs?" Some of us may have elected to get divorced on a particularly frustrating day at Wrigley Field when they realized they had nothing in common with their partner (sheepish look).

Lately there have been some pretty amazing media pieces that signify what it's like to love the Cubs. For a girl with commitment issues I have always managed to stand by the Cubs for better or the end of the NLCS, for richer or the Tribune years, on the Injured Reserve and at the Hall of Fame. It's never been an easy relationship and 2003 sent me straight into couselling, but I'm willing to put in the work because 'Someday We'll Go All the Way..."

So here's my favorites in Cubs related media right now. The old standby ones and the new big crushes. 

Cubs Win: So Real, It's Unreal

When I first saw this commercial for the Sony Playstation game "MLB 12: The Show" I didn't know what it was for. By the end I was in tears. When the screenwriter from A League of Their Own said "There's no crying in baseball" this person was clearly not a Cub fan. Certainly not one that lived through 2003 and 1984. Certainly not one whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather passed without ever seeing a Cub World Series victory.

If we ever do win I expect the city to look just like this. Right before the south side sets themselves on fire. Again.

And speaking of the Northside vs. the Southside that brings us to...

Chicago vs. Chicago

As my friend Matt said when he posted this on my Facebook wall "This video contains so many of your favorite things your head might explode".  It has everything. Seriously? The Cubs, mustaches, beer, dark dive bars, baseball arguments with White Sox fans, and a fight over pizza WITH Ron Swanson!?!


And when Ron Ulysses Swanson (ahem, I mean Nick Offerman) informs the Sox fan that "Even our handsome well-coiffed Governor won't sell a seat to the White Sox" my love of him is forever sealed. 

Chicago Cubs: The Heart and Soul of Chicago Trailer

The premise behind this film is the love of the Cubs reflects the city and the people as a whole. I couldn't agree more.
"It seems like in Chicago, no matter what, they always have your back...whether you have won 10 in a row or lost 10 in a row...it goes beyond the city into the texture of family life."

Eddie Vedder "Someday We'll Go All The Way"

Eddie Vedder wrote this song about our beloved Cubs. I think he sums it up well:

...and when the day comes with that last winning run
And I'm crying and covered in beer
I'll look to the sky and know I was right
To think someday we'll go all the way

Believe

It's self-evident.

Go Cubs Go!!!