So it's the week of The World Series. This is a week that has had little to no meaning to me my entire life. A lot of my family and friends live for it every year, but I typically turn my focus to the start of the hockey season, in all honesty, and rarely ever tune into this sporting event each fall.
I like baseball, and I've been a Cubs fan my whole life. I don't want to undermine that by saying that I never cared about the World Series. However, I'm a Cubs fan, not a baseball fan. I don't know every player on every team, and I don't even follow the Cubs religiously. I watch them when they are on, I try to get to a game or two every season, and I stay loyal to them every year even when they constantly lose.
My family are some of the biggest Cubs fans I've ever met. My brother, dad, and Uncle grew up living and breathing Cubs baseball, and it was passed down to my sister and I. Every year after year I would hear about how this was our year. They developed a top tier farm system. They got new front office executives. We have good rookies coming through. This was conversation in my family every season start, especially every year after my brother, dad, and cousins got home from Spring Training. And, every year I nodded and hoped they were right, but didn't really have high expectations (I can be loyal, but also realistic...right?)
But, this year they were right, and the Chicago Cubs are in the World Series for the first time since 1945. It's UNBELIEVABLE. It's been 71 years. My parent's weren't even alive the last time they were in the World Series. This is history, and for Chicago this is magical.
Which is why you should be rooting for the Cubs. I don't care if you've been a Sox fan your whole life, you should cheer on your city and root for a team that has worked their butts off for 71 years to get to this point. I don't care if you're a Dodgers fan or not even really a baseball fan in general, witnessing this series is witnessing history. I honestly cannot fathom people who say they are rooting against the Chicago Cubs; of course, unless you're a Cleveland fan in which it's understandable. To me, it makes so much sense to want to see a team that's worked so hard, against so many odds, and even against a curse to overcome something so big and turn their organization around into something that could be looked at as a joke into a successful team.
Regardless of who you are, how much of a baseball fan you are, or if you've never even watched a Cubs game in your life, I urge you to root on the Cubs. You aren't going to be judged, or looked at negatively for cheering this team on if you never have before, we welcome everyone to cheer beside us. This is a time to turn your TV on and tune in because the Chicago Cubs are about to do some great things. If they win this series, it will be the first time since 1908, 106 years later, breaking the curse and changing Chicago Cubs name for life.
