Facebook continues to astound in the ad department. I wrote a few weeks ago about ugly, unlicensed baseball shirts, and with Spring Training about to begin, Facebook has even more to show me. Honestly, I don’t hate this. A Chicago Cubs bowling shirt! Would I wear it, though? Oh, absolutely not. It looks like itContinue reading “More Things I Do Not Need”
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A Tale of Two Baseball Caps
Yesterday, the Stars & Stripes Washington Nationals Baseball Cap arrived. Baseball teams started wearing patriotic baseball caps on national holiday weekends a few years ago. (And yes, the Toronto Blue Jays have their own patriotic cap, with the Maple Leaf instead of the Stars and Stripes.) Despite my love of the Cubs :cubs: I don’tContinue reading “A Tale of Two Baseball Caps”
On the 2005 World Series
A caveat–I admit to ho-hum feelings about this World Series. The two teams in contention are rivals of the Cubs, so I had a choice between rooting for one enemy or the other. Those were some incredible games. Game four was edge-of-your-seat, especially when the ninth inning came down the way it did. I don’tContinue reading “On the 2005 World Series”
More on the White Sox
The Chicago White Sox have won their first pennant since 1959. I wrote two months ago, “I’ve been a Cubs fan for so long that thoughts of the other Chicago baseball team never cross my mind. The Cubs. The Bears. They provoke passion. The White Sox? Well, they had really cool uniforms in the mid-80s.”Continue reading “More on the White Sox”
On the White Sox
Today on Slate someone wrote about the pain of being a Chicago White Sox fan. Or not. I didn’t realize the White Sox had fans. 😉 The White Sox are doing fantastically well this year. Best record in the American League. Comfortably sitting atop the American League Central. Barring unforeseen calamities, the White Sox willContinue reading “On the White Sox”