Go Baseball!!!

It's that time of year again.

The time of year where I decided that I am going to get into major league baseball. I’m going to regularly watch games and keep track.

This is usually over by spring training but it happens every year.

But probably not.

For the last couple of years I’ve decided that I’m going to become a Milwaukee Brewers fan. I’ve been to their ballpark, saw them play, I liked their style.

While I’m good for a couple of games I can’t fight down the realization that these guys are the rivals of the Chicago Cubs, my former team that I buried and claimed to never have loved. The undead zombie Cubs continue speaking at me underneath the floor boards, “you know this is the year right?”

I cave, the Cubs win me back. I trade in Braun, the Brew Crew, and Miller Park and pick up my tired fandom of the Cubs again with the losses, the curse, and an aging crumbling ballpark.

Yes, I said Wrigley Field is a crumbling ballpark, because it is. I know there is glamour and glory behind it all somewhere but I can’t look past the fact that it honestly is in terrible shape. (If there is ever a time where a stranger will comment on one of my blog posts, this is it)

Coors Field

This year I plan to stay with the Cubs, as my NL team. Since I have a terrible time following one team I have it in my head that I also need an AL team and what more perfect team than the local talent, the Colorado Rockies?

So instead of one disappointing team this year I will have two.

Perhaps it would be easier rooting for teams that are exciting and win games but that would be defecting from my teams that I'm only half enthused about. I'm a better fan than that.

Apart from saying I'll follow baseball, and then not doing it, I have one more tradition that is even more consistant. The yearly tradition of informing my brother that the New York Yankees are evil and that I can't believe he roots for them. They are evil, bro, just find a new team.

Go Cubs, go! Hoist the white flag at Wrigley!!! This is the yea….is it football season yet?