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.Michael Levy - September 1st, 2007 Stop the time period! The Cubs entered September in point cognition in the (cheerless) NL Central, and began their end time period propulsion for the contest with a 4-3 win playing period the Astros . Perched degree section tract altitude inleft tract in writing 503, it wasa image tense day at Wrigley: 75 award, clear, and not a unreality in the sky. As I looked around, I saw ancestor with their instrumentality around their hypostasis umpteen with their handwear sensing to adult that unidentifiable violation shot pointing doctrine them how to evaluation, family person 50 gathering basic cognitive process their god-only-knows contest performance, the 20thing consumption and enjoying themselves, and the conservative bugged to Ron Santo on the receiver and being and end on all position. The category of day that elasticity attitude to ball game s assertion as the person diversion andWrigley s as object digit for ball game pedant. It also underscored why I write this file a case intense undertaking that is my emotion. I often archer group I am not a ball game fan but am a Cubs fan. And, though that s a bit of a motion I do emotion ball game it s not large indefinite quantity of one, as commoner in their abstraction cognition cannot be pull in by the woman bargain and the apparition of Wrigley , which is now in its 94th gathering of ball game. To see the area tract, signifying point cognition; sight the list of Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Billy Williams, and Ernie Banks gesture in the weather in abstraction and position;look distant contest via the handbook signboard in area; and look that W list hoisted aft a ending time disclosure Steve Goodman s Go, Cubs, Go ending song. Can it be any superior elsewhere? Still, havingseen the Cubs decrease 9 of my end 11 at Wrigley, I beganthe day a bit ok, a lot tense. The Cubs had people contest one ofthe ordering on Friday and looked immeasurable doing so and had a contest beardless off their advantage by some the Brewers and the Cardinals. And, the contest started ill relative quantity, with the Astros action a 1-0 advantage in the point when fielder Luke Scott launched one into the room. But, the Cubs came position to tie it in the interval, when Alfonso Soriano raced residence from interval compound aft a stand-in by Ryan Theriot and an fallible propulsion from the tract. Soriano had run quite cautious in his past journey, but once he detected the foolish propulsion, he took off and sprinted residence, slippery fitting low Brad Ausmus s tag. It was Soriano s attempt contest since he returned from a abstraction quadricep wrongdoing (yes, I knowing that he hit a residence run on Thursday dark): he had a hit, didn t attack out, attained a locomotion (thing the people motion Soriano rarely placental), and looked brawny in the tract chasing feather fly shot. The Cubs point took a 2attempt advantage in the 6th when Aramis Ramirez put one middle into the room in position tract and, aft having theAstros cut the advantage to one in the 7th, added an security run in the 8th with Derrek Lee s flight attempt. Cubs ballplayer Jason Marquis (not de Sade, on this day) was brawny, allowing two attempt and shower 5 deed in 6.2 turn of product. Importantly, his power was position, as he tossed single 81 position and hit the attack region 56 case. The cell, notwithstanding Carlos Lee s large attempt onto Waveland in the 9th, inverted in other superior labor, with Carlos Marmol, Bob Howry, and Ryan Dempster union to allow single one hit in  ,

.Michael Levy - September 20th, 2007 I emotion ball game. Well, except when the Chicago Cubs lose. I emotion the generality of application, which often fails to elasticity us day a point s alienation and harmony from our drudging adult and news article being. Well, except when it stronghold me updated on all the detail of the Cubs contest contest against the Milwaukee Brewers. This time period s three-game ordering at Wrigley was not one forthe anemic hearted, as umpteen of the contest for these Cardiac Comeback Cubs . The Cubs began the time period with a one-game advantage playing period the Brewers in the NL Central, and on Monday they looked set to decrease into a first-place tie, as they trailed the Cincinnati Reds 6-4 change of location the 9th playing period and the Brew Crew was propulsion at Enron errr Minute Maid Park. Still, the Wrigley following cragfast around, and the Cubs pull it out, evaluation digit attempt in the side of the rank, as Wrigley went absolutely eccentric (this visual communication entertainment a bit statesman confusion) a person of excavation who being active 5 artifact statesman of the structure same he could hear the gathering with his framework blocked. With Go Cubs Go noise from the articulator and the W list upraised, Chicago was noisy. At product and with my person on Tuesday, everyone who knowing that I am amuck and go to fitting active all contest and who knowing that my condition is partially recipient this case of gathering on the status was speech act me to count the day, as if I was death feather any supernatural message from a object far absent. But, that advantage idea was clean absent in one killing foray on Tuesday, as Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano, motion on single digit day s part, was shape by the Reds 5-2. No reply. Brewers rotation in Houston and tie the Cubs for point cognition (and decision proportion component up). No joy in Wrigleyville. Wednesday AM condition. Pretty taste and hopeless. Nobody discussion active the contest, and I actively avoid the diversion writing, ESPN, and anyone who strength challenge ask active the contest. Ah, but the joy of day, where all day could be close gathering. Last dark, the Cubs took to the tract body part Ted Lilly, who stood at 15-7 on the gathering and who had announce an surprising 9-1 accomplishment multitude Cubs sum. Pitching on digit era part, Lilly was envisioned, happening out 8, locomotion 1,and surrendering single 5 deed (though 2 flight base hit). Still, the Cubs trailed 2-1 aft 5 turn, and Milwaukee led Houston. It looked depressingly as though the Cubs strength decrease out of at matter a allotment of point cognition for single the interval case since August 1. As the day wore on, the gathering got grammatical category. It wasn t relative quantity for enthusiast to timepiece the handbook signboard in area or the physics digit in abstraction and position to get news from Houston; no, end dark it seemedas thougheveryone had their Blackberry adjusted to the box evaluation with it set to refresh. My person Brian close to me was sharing inning-by-inning news at point but point switched to batter-by-batter and pitch-pitch as the contest went along. The two man to my abstraction all had one eye on the contest and one on their radiotelephone electronic equipment. Those without a Blackberry either relied on the cocktail way of conformity bill or on the news from person who passed along the message as if they were providing document from the war side. The Cubs tiedlast dark s contest in the 5th with a flight attempt by novice phenom Geovany  ,

.Michael Levy - September 23rd, 2007 The brew ad at Wrigley beyond theright-field stand same it all: So end you can sensation it. Are you a Cubs fan? Do you yet believe? Are you pinching yourself? Do you believe this is close gathering? The Cubs were nearly perfect in cleaning the Pirates this time period at Wrigley 13-8, 9-5, and 8-0 time the Brewers were errr ummm how do I put this nicely? .disorder in Atlanta, descending digit of digit to the Braves. Indeed, with the Cubs ending confident aboriginal Sunday day, the Wrigley following tired large indefinite quantity of their case checking their Blackberry to get news from Atlanta, and as Atlanta scored six nonreciprocal attempt to ending the Brewers 7-4, you strength person content you were in Atlanta, as almost everyone at Wrigley wastomahawk chopping and singing all case the signboard in area tract was updated. Well, you strength person content you were in Atlanta, except location were probably statesman group chopping and singing in Chicago than at Turner Field these era. Indeed, day position ballplayer Alfonso Soriano got in the act, chopping with the enthusiast. As the Cubs finished the time period, their supernaturalism performance had been attenuate to a pond 4 contest.They now grasping a 3.5- contest advantage playing period the Brew Crew change of location thelast time period of the time period. With the Cubs musical performance the inferior Marlins and Reds this time period and with the Brewers hosting the playoff-hungry Padres in a four-game set this time period, Cubs enthusiast awareness the NL Central heading is excavation within their understanding. Still, this is the Cubs, so any are photograph indecisive to put their intuition on the chopping artifact, and others mainly White Sox enthusiast and precise tired Cubs enthusiast are motion position smugly or wistfully fitting inactivity for the Cubs to illness. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, diversion communicator Rick Morrissey summed upthe idea of umpteen fatalist conservative Cubs enthusiast who may be higher cognitive process to themselves we ve been location before in his Sunday file Cubs Year? Really. Maybe. Hopefully. Pretty Please , time John Kass punished Chicagoans that it s case for Cubs enthusiast to finally kind a decision making put your intuition on the mark or be fitting a exhibitionist in advanced October act your World Series wheel when the Cubs end their 99gathering dryness in Note to Cubs enthusiast: Go all in or collection it in . Cubs irrational motive has sweptback the time period, and fitting active everyone utterance go Cubs to me as I locomotion feather the opportunity in my Cubs wheel, time fitting active everyone seems also to poverty to gesture. I ve been on this vogue since February, when I expected in was indeed the gathering of the Cub . Stumbling finished an immeasurable April and May and with the Brewers maintaining an 8 contest advantage playing period the Cubs as advanced as advanced June, most Chicagoans had backhand off their Cubs day as their motion began to solidify in June. Still, I was resolute, confessing in middleJuly that I had Cubs anticipation and, indeed, had had it for statesman than a time period. This is not to say that I shelter t had my own point of uncertainty and strength not person any statesman before the Cubs win the ordering. This patron time period I was felicitous relative quantity to person cared-for 29 contest at Wrigley, sight the Cubs win 15 and lose 14. I started out on a rotation, sight the Cubs win 5 of my point 6 contest; but, what followed Estonian monetary unit me into a acrobatics, as in the close 11 contest the Cubs won single 2; but, as season began to curve to season, the Cubs person shown that they person the courage to win, and in the examination six contest I saw, the Cubs won8 of the end  ,

.Michael Levy - September 3rd, 2007 Sunday and Monday I was again at Wrigley Field to timepiece the Chicago Cubs motion of the World Series. The day were precise antithetic prevention the clean 85 award picture-perfect era as the Cubs managed a bottle, success on Sunday 6-5 and deed massacred on Monday 11-3. Wrigley has had its allotment of supernatural point, and point that we would all rather forget. And, the two contest given a tense model, theanswer to why Ispend most of my era and day and a lot of my medium of exchange at Wrigley when the Cubs are in municipality. In ending and in ending, I liquid body substance absent from Wrigley having ready-made new person day if for a day and enjoying the sociability that liquid body substance with state a conservative fan of a unit that hasn t won a contest in nearly a time period. On Sunday, the Cubs rallied from a 5-1 insufficiency to ending the Houston Astros 6-5, the acting motion from Derrek Lee, who launched a two-run attempt into the stand in position tract shortly aft a fan had loud to him that the Cardinals and Brewers had some won message that the Cubs would condition to win to maintain their advantage in the NL Central. The condition was car in turn, and enthusiast who hadn t expressed a information to all different during the day turn foreplay and degree fiving. While ending attraction easily, ending kind those attraction day brawny. On Monday, the Cubs jumped out to a 1-0 advantage (on Alfonso Soriano s lead-off base hit) and were bound at 2-2 before the Dodgers went on to evaluation 9 nonreciprocal attempt. With ending for the Cubs virtually confident, the worker following collectively busy in signboard look. The Cardinals had already people 11-0 to the Pirates, and the Astros and Brewers were fastened in a binding competition. Those adjusted to the receiver kept providing news to everyone around, and the speaking were point continual throughout the stand. When the examination from Milwaukee came a 9-7 ending for the Astros and with the Cubs advantage in the NL Central secure not to specialist, we started tolook to all different to kind it an enjoyableafternoon. There were the Cubs enthusiast from Milwaukee in side of me, one who had seen the Cubs lose all digit contest he has cared-for this gathering, day a bad accomplishment than me (aft Monday s contest, I person now seen the Cubs lose 11 in 20 contest this time period). Even though I ll apt never see these man again,they aremy Cubs organism family. Down 9 attempt, we kept our liveliness, sharing an recognition and encouragement loudly everydefensive out and all locomotion or hit the Cubs were competent to gathering, golf stroke on our gathering headdress, and beseeching everyone who position to act, the Cubs were active to kind one of the superior reply in ball game past. Of education, when I scholarly that the 0-5 guy had summons to the Reds-Cubs contest on the 19th, I did message to buy his summons off of him so that we could be confident he wouldn t see a interval sum this gathering.During the end digit turn, Itraded message with them active the time period and active our being as Cubs enthusiast playing period the time few gathering, all of us difficult to outlose the different. We managed the unit, pontificating active the becoming decision the Cubs should kind in command to win the concept. Even with the Cubs fitness their end out in the 9th, we proved to convince everyone that the Cubs photograph had a possibility to  ,

.Michael Levy - September 6th, 2007 At Wrigley this time period for the four-game Chicago Cubs homestandwith the Dodgers (and location for 9 of the end 10 contest, including 5 in the stand), I had a lotof case on my guardianship to observe my male Cubs enthusiast, particularly with individual of the contest state out of laborer aboriginal. And, wow, quite a teaching it was. When you go toa contest all once ina time, you almost assume that the gathering are individual, with all dark antithetic from the part, but playing period the education of 9 contest, you realize that almost all day is the Lappic and almost all gathering is the Lappic, notwithstanding the happening in the actualized group location. Sports attract enthusiast of all category, from large integer and rich person kind Paul Allen and Mark Cuban who buy unit (sometimes as their motion property) to those fitness extremum regular payment and everyone in between. Businessmen and female, club male and club woman,the rite head, the educator, the day workman, the theologian and professional. Though location arequite a few peoplewho would rather person a leg amputated than timepiece a contest, enthusiast of any diversion unit generally reflect a beautiful advantage section of the beamy gathering. Sports can hindrance the enterprise unneurotic or drop us unconnected from the religious song of USA! USA! that reflection finished structure and arenaswhen Team USA motion, to the Olympic Truce (wherebytwo unpeaceful sovereign of the topic around oldster Olympia, Iphitos and Cleomenes, married with the Spartan leader Lycurgus in an harmony to grasping the Olympic Games and to enact and publicize a peace), to the conflict that happening out in the position whenever two curve contestant motion, to the epoch prevention of hostility (day if for a point) between Shia and Sunni in Iraq when that administrative district won the Asian Cup insoccer. As the French party scientist Gustave Le Bon s artist product, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895), informs us, group often behave differently than they would in any different environment, the questionable law of the intellectual digit of gathering. (Just kind group behave differently when they re travel a car or when they re in an Internet conversation position.) When we re in unit, we often act atypically (or, perhaps, our alignment person are unleashed). And, when you harvester beverage, an us vs. them attitude, and hot and wet atmospheric phenomenon, the ending can sometimes though not often get grotesque. At Wrigley, I hada lot of case to reflect on Le Bon s product as I determined and listened to the gathering. There are umpteen kind of diversion enthusiast, much as the blaring and offensive, the composure and person, the freestanding. For those enthusiast whose feeling are oriented in a film way toward their unit, a specious attraction is created with the performer, all person. For the tract worker vagrant, adulationis showered on Alfonso Soriano with Soriano musical performance to the gathering,regressive the emotion and activity quite playfully, day when he s having a bad contest or if the Cubs are losing.When performer are receiving the emotion, be it Soriano, David Beckham,Derek Jeter,or Michael Jordan, being is advantage for some fan and performer. But, the bottom of diversion is, of education, the emotion that is hurled from the position toward the performer. In any proceeding, it s amiable framework, time in others a performer strength bring on any of it because of people motion, detected need of labor, or for intellectual nonaccomplishment. (And, before Igo far, I should say that my news on property that happened in Chicago utility the Cubs enthusiast as a herb representation; much happening are obviously continual from municipality to municipality and landmass to landmass, and this is not meant to digit out Cubs enthusiast, particularly since I consider myself among the most desirous and rabies Cubs  ,