I had a late lunch this past Wednesday afternoon with my friend Stuart, seen in the photograph above, at the Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom in Lakewood, Colorado. Lakewood is a community whose heart and soul revolves around West Colfax Avenue, once called "America's longest, wickedest street" by Hugh Hefner and also one of its ugliest. But happily, inside Old Chicago, a spring training game was on the television, reminding us of the baseball season to come. Stuart is originally from the North Side of Chicago, and a Cubs fan, and was happy to hear that the Cub's star player, Cody Bellinger, has re-signed with the team, and is now at their training camp in Mesa, Arizona. He initially decided to become a free agent after having a great comeback season last year, but evidently a great comeback year with the Cubs did not produce a lot of offers from other teams. And so it will be back to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field this summer. I myself, as regular blog readers know, am originally from the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago and a White Sox fan. Stuart is still pretty iffy about the Cubs chances of making the playoffs this year. They are, after all, the Cubs, even with new hotshot manager Craig Counsel. And after the trainwreck that was the White Sox season last year, I am not buying World Series tickets anytime soon. As for our adopted hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, nobody even remotely believes they will be anything but horrible. But it is spring training after all, and miracles can happen. Right? Right?
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