Cubs fans never give up hope
By Cody Hughes
REDNECK RAMBLIN'S COLUMN, May 6, 2004
The Cubs fans are always gonna be around whether the Cubs win or lose. More times than not in my short lifetime it has been losing. Yet some players say there is no place better to play than for the Cubs in the nostalgic Wrigley Field.
Greg Maddux had said about coming back to the Cubs this year, “I wanted to finish my career here. The fans are great and they will never let you down.” Now if that isn’t good to hear when sitting on my butt at my house while I am getting crazy because we got Maddux I don’t know what is.
I grew up a Cubs fan and there is no other team that I cheer for. Going to Wrigley Field is like seeing a piece of history with the ivy growing on the brick wall, the drunken bleacher bums and, of course, the rooftop goers.
After a good season last year, we got all these bandwagon jumpin’ fans that say I have been a Cubs fan my whole life when in years past all you hear from these same people is criticisms of how bad the Cubs are and how they are Sox fans. Yet, hey, look at that — the Cubs are doing good and you hear from these same people: “Let’s watch the Cubs game, I love the cubs, blah blah blah.” So I say to these people, “Why don’t you go over to Comiskey and get front row tickets for two bucks and watch a Sox game.”
If you have been a Cubs fan, fine, but we don’t need any fans that are there when there winning and could care less when they’re not. There are enough of us fans who care enough to watch even when the Cubs are terrible, so root on your team and leave ours alone. You are not needed to get the Cubs going.
Then there’s those Sox fan who all you hear from them is we beat you in the cross-town series last year. You know what? You’re right. You did that, but when October came around you were sitting at home not watching your precious Sox because they didn’t make the playoffs. So I say, beat us all you want but when October comes around you can watch our team play while your guys are trying to get themselves a better contract or whatever they do when the don’t play in October.
When the Cubs are losing, Wrigley Felid is packed and the fans are there to cheer on their team, but when the Sox win they still can’t get anyone to come out to their games because their fans are not as dedicated as the ones for the Northsiders.
You can talk about the Cubs all you want, because, win or lose, I’ll be there rooting on the boys in blue.
The Cubbies never seem to win the big one, so maybe there is some truth to the goat curse, but the curse does not deter the fans from getting behind the best team around.
So whether the Cubs do good or bad this season always remember the saying, “Wait till next year.”
That year better come in my lifetime and if it doesn’t there is always another group of young fans to carry on the hope for us all. Never give up hope — this year could be the year.