Maybe it’s a certain fan who adopted the Cubs before the season as his favorite team. Maybe it’s a sign that global warming is indeed, a reality. Maybe, as Sir Paul once said, I’m amazed. It’s nearly September (and yes, there’s still time for a collapse, a goat ex machina, or a Bartman II) and the Cubs remain in first.

For those of you who don’t know or don’t care (but, you’ve read THIS far), the Cubs haven’t won the World Series since 1908, which is. for you mathematically challenged and/or UT grads, nearly 100 years. The Cubs have had their share of misfortune and woe (far more than those whiney Boston fans).

I’m still in Knoxville as part of a training team for emergency preparedness Health Department employee. I’m not teaching truck driving (we’re teaching how to use handheld devices to help register and triage patients in the event…). The main teacher is a representative of the software vendor. She’s from Chicago and she’s a huge Cub’s fan. One of her first fake patients used to demonstrate the software was Ron Santo (beloved former Cubs player and current Cub’s radio guy). She was trying to think of an address to use, and I suggested 1908 as the street number. She didn’t laugh, but I got a good laser-like glare out of the suggestion.

*Porklips Now is one of the greatest short satirical films ever made.