My friend Stuart - seen in the photograph above - and I had a late lunch yesterday afternoon at the Old Chicago in Lakewood, that ugly suburb just to the west of Denver, where we watched the Chicago Cubs, facing elimination in the National League Division Series, come out like gangbusters in the first inning and score 4 runs, holding on to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3. Stuart, who grew up on the North Side of Chicago and is, of course, a Cubs fan, went from very pessimistic to declaring that momentum is now on the side of the Cubs, convinced they will take the next 2 games and move on to the NL Championship Series. Spoken like a true Cubs fan. And will they actually do that? As I have said many times before, they are, after all, the Cubs. As for my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, they finished the season 60-102, bad but not historically bad like last year, when they lost 121 games. And it was, after all, a rebuilding year, with a team made up of very promising rookies. As for our adopted hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, they finished with a 43-119 record and avoided tying the White Sox's historic loss record by 2 games, which seemed to be their main goal this past season. And what does their future look like? They fired their general manager, which everyone knew needed to happen, but the question remains whether they will hire a new GM who actually knows something about baseball, which the team owner has always avoided doing up till now. Time will tell.
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