The well-documented, longest-EVER championship drought in professional sports history has finally been broken by the Chicago Cubs.
If anything I have posted about it has been insulting or offensive, I CERTAINLY did NOT mean it that way!
If we are friends, you should KNOW THIS about me!!
108 years, and generations of families never seeing this, is a monumental thing.
It's the biggest deal there is in sports, and my family and I are a bit excited about it.
My dad was born, grew old, and died before he had the chance to live through this triumph of his favorite team (at least they won the pennant the fall after he came home from World War 2).
It's huge. It's nothing that can be explained adequately. It's actually a bit difficult to deal with.
It's a paradigm shift. Bear with me.
Okay, so the back story of this post is that I had been out getting something at the grocery store, and a total stranger spoke to me about my Cubs shirt.
Him: "I like the shirt!"
Me: "Thanks!"
Him: "Being a Red Sox fan, I can relate."
Me: smiled and walked away
I had posted this on FaceBook and added to the conversation portion of the post that no, he didn't quite understand....
A championship drought is a big thing for any fan, I do NOT discount that!!
But this was THE LONGEST IN HISTORY, and it IS DIFFERENT. Were the Red Sox ever called "Lovable Losers?" Were they called that for 50 or more YEARS?
Anyway, someone got pissed at me for saying that Red Sox fans don't understand.
86 years vs 108 years.
Don't get pissed at me, just let me have my freaking moment -- and stop being Debbie Downer.
SO... other than the biggest news in sports history this past week, I got my second set of injections and saw the doc.
Blood counts look good, and the injections went much better this time. No residual pain at all.
The chemo mouth has begun, but rinsing with baking soda is taking care of it, for the most part.
I slept for 10 hours last night/this morning, and look forward to the coming week just being a normal week, with no intense excitement, nothing out of the ordinary, and no doctor appointments.
Next week will end with us going to a concert to see my favorite singer/song writer, so I am looking forward to that, and a holiday for my office on Friday. YAY!
If you haven't changed your clocks back, DO IT NOW!
Oh, and THE CUBS ARE THE 2016 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!
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