CHICAGO — Shocking no one, the Cubs garb was overflowing upon arrival at O’Hare.
The cab driver was in such a sports-talk radio trance, listening to the locals babble on about the pros and cons of their new hero, Kyle Schwarber, seeing time in the outfield, the pitching matchups set for the next three days, and the first World Series game at Wrigley Field in 71 years, that he had to ask twice which hotel we were heading to.
Outside the ball park on what felt like a balmy October afternoon compared to the frigidness of Cleveland in Game 2, one middle-aged woman fully decked out in Cubs red, white and blue could be heard saying exactly what the hundreds of people wandering alongside her on the World Series off-day Thursday had to be thinking, too: “I had to experience this.