One thing Earl and I have in common is our love of baseball. The 2024 season started last week; and we’re signed up for the MLB network which means we have access to every game every day through the World Series.
But our favorite team – at least Earl’s favorite team (I’m lukewarm.) — is the Chicago Cubs, those hapless losers who won the World Series by a hair in 2016.
There is a tradition in Cubland, meaning Wrigley Field, that when the team wins a white flag with a blue W for ‘Win’ flies about the stadium. This started in 1937 when the Cubs management added bleachers to the stadium and then decided to fly a flag after each game letting transit commuters know what happened while they were coming home from work.
Today, it’s become standard fare for fans to stay after the game, unfurl their “W” flags, and sing “Go, Cubs, Go.”
Earl and I don’t attend games at Wrigley anymore, so we ordered a “W” flag to fly outside our patio this season when our team wins. It had to pass our condo complex’s rules and regs, but we think it does. You can fly the U.S. flag anytime AND a professional or college teams flag on the day that team plays.
I suspect nobody thought that baseball season is 162 games long. Which mean we have that many opportunities to fly the W when the Cubs win.
What other team, professional or college, has that?
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