And I am going to spend my senior skip day at the Friendly Confines.

This makes no sense, of course, since the Cubs just got done getting blasted to Kingdom Come by Dusty's Reds.  Strangely enough, though, yesterday's loss doesn't bother me that much. 

First of all, the Cardinals and Brewers both lost too, although the Asstrolls are above .500, how, I don't know.  Next, they always lose games the first time they face pitchers, so that isn't much of a departure.  Then, I didn't expect Lieber to have much to offer, since he's been jacked around in the bullpen so far this year.  Maybe he really is best suited for long relief at this point.  I think we need to give him another start, since we really don't have too many other outstanding options currently.

I just feel that I have been away long enough.  I am getting to the point that I no longer watch games or even seek out highlights or scores.  I need to keep it real...to get back to my roots...to get back in touch with my Cubness.  And nothing else does it quite like a trip to the shrine. 

I have said many times that Wrigley Field has served as a leafy smokescreen for the many Cubs deficiencies.  I have said that I would not honestly give a rip if they tore it down and replaced it with a baseball mall, and if they decided to play all their home games in Little League Diamond #6 at Troy Baseball Complex in Joliet, as long as they won a pennant it would be ok with me.

But for a man, and for many women too, but mostly for a man, there are very few feelings that compare with the initial climb up any one of the ramps at Wrigley, when you can look out and around and just get utterly overwhelmed with the vast sea of green.  Ivy, grass and seats, soothing, natural, cool, calming green.  It must be inherently coded into our DNA from caveman times, when you see green, it is spring, it is time to hunt, time to gather food, time to couple off and mate with Camilla Belle on top of her furs.

Like Darth Vader said in "Field of Dreams", it's like bathing in magic waters, and right now, I need some magic water.  Even if it is 7.50 a cup.