I realize it is a bit silly – and obvious – at this point to say that baseball is different this year. But I have found it different in a way I did not expect. We have been lucky enough to Cubs season tickets since 2012 (though “lucky” is perhaps not the word I would have used the first three of those seasons, especially our first year as season ticket holders when the Cubs lost 101 games).
I have been able to get to 35 to 40 games a year since we got the season tickets. Much of my schedule from April through September (and into October a couple of times) has been based on going to baseball games and, therefore, whether the Cubs were at home or on the road. But this year is different. The Cubs are on TV and the radio and I can watch them there, which is nice. But it doesn’t matter whether Cubs are at home or on the road because I can’t go to the games. If all you are doing is watching on TV or the radio, it doesn’t matter whether the game is at home or the road. Especially when the Cubs are playing so many of their home games, even on Fridays and Saturdays, at night.
The Cubs are starting a long homestand tomorrow night, which would have been really great in past seasons. I would have looked forward to it because I would have been going to games. But homestands this year? It doesn't really matter.
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