You’re going to need your Chicago Cubs watch to count the time to another championship
If you are a true Chicago Cubs fan, I don’t have to preach to you about time. You know how long it has been. Your Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908. That is 103 years without a World Series title. When you break that down, it comes to 54,136,800 minutes. And it seems like you will continue to wait that long for even another shot at a World Series title. How much longer can the Cubs remain “The Lovable Losers” in your household? How long can a city hold its breath in anticipation? Maybe they should just go back to one of their original names, the Chicago Orphans. Sure, you could root for the other team in town but you know that you don’t really want to. And you hate the fact that they can claim a recent championship.
Your whole life you have been waiting. Just as your father and your grandfather have been waiting. Almost like waiting for the delivery of a pizza that didn’t order. The time passes on and each season you pray that this will be the season that it happens. And when the season ends you curse the Cubs. And you curse Billy Sianis and his goat for the whole mess. If he had just left that darned goat at home maybe Chicago could have celebrated a Cubs championship. But no, he just had to bring that goat. Who did he think he was anyway? And that decision has haunted you and Cubs fans ever since. To see other teams win makes it hurt even more. Even the Red Sox were able to break their curse, so why can’t we do the same thing?
Why can’t the passage of time kill the curse? You know that time moves whether you want it to or not. Every time you look at your Chicago Cubs watch, you are reminded of that. The only good thing is that you can be reminded of time with your favorite team’s watch. Like any Cubs fan, you have your share of Cubs memorabilia. And you have your two Chicago Cubs watches. During the offseason, you wear your veteran series Chicago Cubs watch. It’s a nice solid watch with that familiar red Cubs logo in the center. But during the season, you switch to your Chicago Cubs Schedule watch. It’s a Chicago Cubs watch that keeps track of the Cubs schedule and the entire MLB schedule as well. To you, it is one of the best Chicago Cubs watches ever made. You even gave your father one, since it made a great Chicago Cubs gift. He wanted a new Chicago Cubs watch anyway.
Each time the second hand makes another trip around the dial, it’s another minute without a championship. And then another hour, another day. A continuous march through another baseball season. Another season that you hope and pray will end with a World Series win. Sometimes the tick-tock of your Chicago Cubs watch can be deafening. But deep down you know that since you have to count the minutes, it’s easier with a Chicago Cubs watch.
