5 songs officially done at this point… title of album done (though being kept under wraps)… graphic design work underway… keep praying for me as I am looking toward an end of May release.
Should Be a Holiday…
If baseball is still called our national pastime (I know… I know… football gets much better ratings than baseball these days), then shouldn’t Opening Day be a national holiday? In my house, there are only a small handful of days that are considered to be more important in any given year than the Chicago Cubs’ Opening Day… we will be partying tonight… win or lose. So, you may ask, “why is Opening Day so important to you? Shouldn’t you care just as much about the game they play on August 2nd as the one on April 2nd?”
In my twenty years of watching and pouring my soul into Chicago Cubs baseball, the Cubs have made the playoffs three times (‘89, ‘98, ‘03), but have yet to make it to a World Series. Opening Day symbolizes hope… and a new beginning. Every year at this time, the Cubs still have just as good a shot at winning it all as every other team… so even if you know that they won’t have a good team, there is still the hope that they can somehow pull together and become a great baseball team. I have seen it happen… 1998’s team was probably not as good as some of the other years, but they somehow made it squeaked into the playoffs. Opening Day is about forgetting how close the Cubs were to playing in a World Series in 2003 when the infamous Steve Bartman made an inopportune grab at a foul ball from the left field bleachers. It’s about erasing last year’s 66-win and last place NL-Central finish from our collective memories. It’s about every year looking at the team on the first day of the season and truly being able to say that “I think THIS could be the year!”
It feels weird to be at work…
