In a division of some pretty fancy labels, the Cubs like the idea of getting dirty. We go to Atlanta, half the ballpark is rooting for us. Cincinnati, Houston, same thing. People watch us all over the country. We were picked for fifth place, but we worked hard.
People appreciate that.
He was a lot younger and more impressionable when his mother Angie found out she had cancer, but she did her suffering privately. She never missed a day on her job as a child psychologist in Peoria, and when she came home, she was a mother first and a wife second. I had to get away from baseball. I wanted to come back home, and I did. But after a day here, I realized not only how much I missed my mom, but how much I missed baseball.