The number of “awesome” stories about Cubs fans that have been written lately are too enumerable to count. (Actually, they’re not, I’m just lazy. And yes, “awesome” here means “how does winning actually make you a worse person?”) And just when the of stories about the Monsters of Wrigley are about to wring our collective necks … a faint glimmer of hope emerges.

Up … no … wait for it … aw … sorry. It appeared to be a speck of humanity and then the Cubs squashed it. The SUN-TIMES throws out the news that in Chicago there is 104-year- old man, a Cubs fan and one of the few alive who aren’t lifelong losers, that wants to throw out the first pitch in Wrigley. And for whatever ridiculously inane reason, the Cubs don’t want to let him. (Cue: BOOOOOOOOOO!)
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