You'd Be So Excited about Cubs in the World Series!

Muff, I can just imagine you tonight, sitting down in an easy chair in front of a TV set, with some popcorn watching your beloved Chicago Cubs playing game 7 of the World Series!

You once told me that your grandmother started you and your siblings watching the Chicago Cubs on TV when you were very young. Apparently, you sometimes had to hang out with your grandmother in order to get fed, and while there, she instilled a love of baseball in you that lasted your entire life.

Here's an article in the New York Times about tonight's game: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/sports/baseball/world-series-chicago-cubs.html?_r=0

You should know that my mother, who is also a baseball fan of many years, is watching the games in your memory, and cheering for the Cubs, just as she believes you would do.

She calls me after every game and says "Muff and I cheered the Cubs on to victory!" Though she's an atheist, she believes you are right there beside her in spirit, and I sincerely hope she's right. I can't see how telling an almost 80 year old woman otherwise would do any good. Mom has always been strong willed about her beliefs.

I imagine your brothers and sister are also watching the Chicago Cubs with great glee. The Cubs haven't been in the World Series for over 70 years. There are elderly women in the stands who never thought they'd see the Cubs in the series during their lifetime.

Dear God how I wish you were still alive to see this historic moment in baseball history. I know you would have been thrilled....beyond thrilled.

Just in a side note, WP Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe and the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, and the movie Field of Dreams, which you LOVED, died a couple of months ago. He had been so ill from several diseases, among them diabetes, that he committed physician-assisted suicide, to be out of pain and at rest. I hope that you two have met in Heaven and are having a great time talking baseball and books. Remember that I got him to sign a book of short stories for you.

I hope the Cubbies win, my amiga. Even if they don't, I know you will have rooted for them from above, just as my mom and I are rooting for them from down here.

Much love to you, my friend. I miss you so very much.
PS. An update, THE CHICAGO CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES!
Way to go, Chicago! Thanks for the assist from Heaven, my amiga!