“City of the Big Shoulders”
If you needed any more evidence that Chicago is the greatest city in America, tonight’s Rays vs. White Sox game provides ample proof. It is presently the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Rays are up 12-0. In spite of that, and in spite of the fact that it’s extremely cold in Chicago tonight (which you can tell by looking at the players’ breath), there is still a sizable, and astonishingly enthusiastic crowd at Comiskey Park. Almost all of them are covered in blankets, huddled together for warmth. But every strike their pitchers throw, and every put-out their fielders make generates tremendous cheering. Dewayne Staats, the outstanding Rays broadcaster (who announced Cubs games when I was a boy), just noticed that the scoreboard indicated a temperature of forty degrees. “I think they’re just trying to brainwash the fans”, he said.
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud…”
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