My friend Stuart (seen in the photograph above) and I caught the second game of the National League Division Playoffs between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants at Manny & Bo's last night, a neighborhood pizzeria on South Golden Road in Golden, Colorado. It is a really nice, homey sort of place with checkered tablecloths, good pizza at a reasonable price, and a staff that seems to be made up entirely of college students from the nearby Colorado School of Mines. The Cubs won the game 5 to 2, and are one game away from going to the National League Championship Series. This could be the Cubs year. Coming from the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Brainerd, I am of course first and foremost a Chicago White Sox fan, but the White Sox are long out of it, and so I too am now rooting for the Cubs. Stuart, a Northsider originally from the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago and later Lincolnwood, Illinois, is a died in the wool Cubs fan, and this year he is in his glory. However, I was recently told by a Blog reader - also a Chicago White Sox fan - to tell Stuart that if this is indeed the year the Cubs go all the way, to enjoy it, because it will probably not happen again for a long long time. Just ask any White Sox fan - they know.
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