America’s Game: Baseball Cubs & the Braves @ Wrigley Field

CUBS WIN 6-0

WINNER TAKE ALL SATURDAY NIGHT

Everyone is standing, cheering behind home plate. Another home run! As I watch the Cubs play ball, it returns me to my childhood, to my parent’s into old age watching the games from their recliners, the ‘W’ flag flying for the commuters on the train passing Wrigley Field after work.

I can hear Harry Carey singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th inning stretch. What about Dad’s in the driveway washing the car with their favorite baseball team on the radio? Did you have one of those?

You do realize that growing up with America’s game, even if only a vague noise in the background, acted like the florescent stamp on your hand (sometimes invisible ink only seen under a blacklight).

This is why crazy people like The Squad in Washington, DC are such jerks. Those who hate American missed the florescent stamp. They have no memories of American baseball or 4th of July parades where children waved small American flags on a stick.

They know nothing about the smell of fresh mowed turf, the sound of chatter as the ball is thrown around the infield, or the sound the clink of the bat makes; they never saw the look on a kids face breaking in a new baseball mitt.

Without the florescent stamp on your hand, you should not be allowed to serve in the congress or senate. This is the explanation for seeing the hate American traitors on the nightly news.

Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) in the movie, Bull Durham, got it right.
“Walt Whitman once said, ‘I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.’ You could look it up.”