“Basketball has evolved the stuff everyone doing is more athletic, skilled & more creative, way more exciting”
I see… yeah 30 & 40 years ago guys weren’t doing anything guys are doing 10 yrs ago to today. You are right
But wait, what is this???
Here's Michael's rant on Rick Sutcliffe from the latest episode of the BN Cubs Podcast (presented by @ankinlaw).
Agree or no?
Full ep now out:
Apple: https://t.co/66w09w7VMW
Spotify: https://t.co/nrYzXuwjgH
YouTube: https://t.co/jR7a2hKW6k
Steve Goodman wrote the song at the request of Cubs leadership after Tribune acquired them in ‘81 and hired Harry Caray to broadcast games. They wanted to change the attitude on the broadcast for ‘84 so they hired Goodman to write a positive song despite there being no reason to write or publish a positive song after missing the playoffs for 39 straight years. Turns out the ‘84 Cubs ended up making the playoffs but Goodman died of leukemia tragically less than a week before the Cubs clinched the eastern division. It’s a really sad and fucked up sequence of events. The song then went dormant out of respect to Steve until it was resurrected in 2007 following Goodman’s official biography was released in conjunction with the Cubs spending $150M in free agency that winter. Cubs management thought the season needed a theme song after wins, so they went back to Goodmans original Go Cubs Go. Then they won the division back to back seasons for the first time since 1907/1908 which is quite literally 100 years apart. So then it became a good luck thing and safe to say it’s never going anywhere which means if you don’t like it then you’re shit out of luck