Spotted: Picture of Cubs Fan
Last night I was drinking in a bar in Chicago, mostly because drinking in a bar in Chicago is what sustains me and allows me to suffer existence. So I was drinking a selection of German lagers when I saw this hanging above the bar:
I am aware that the photo is sideways. I have the skills and even the will to right things in this regard, but the awry-ness of it suggests a certain absurdity and even a soft defiance of a kind. So it shall stand.
Pictured above, I am told, is “the owner’s brother.”
The owner’s brother is not a man who uses “high tea” as a verb. He is not a man at all; lo, he is a damn man. There are damn men who smoke while fishing. The owner’s brother is not such a damn man. There are damn men who fish while smoking. The owner’s brother is indeed such a damn man.
He probably favored that shirt because it lets the guns breathe a bit on a summer day. He’s probably not sure that the Cubs really are America’s team. He’s entirely sure that he’s about to take a piss off the boat slip.
Owner’s brother, let’s you and I make it through another day.
(Gratitude most righteous to Noel for his beery companionship and flash photography)
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Cub fans dont deserve to be in pictures that are upright
I was about to protest that this post had absolutely no baseball connection. I guess I momentarily forgot that the Cubs are a baseball team and not some mental illness support group.
If the Cubs are America’s team, I’m renouncing my citizenship and moving to fucking Canada. Or Somalia. You know, somewhere sane.
Aside – was the bar the Map Room? Because the Map Room is glorious.
It was at Huettenbar in Lincoln Square. Although, yes, the Map Room is quite glorious.
He looks like the kind of guy who pulls for the Cubs, but is a closet Packers fan. I’d give 9:2 odds that photo was taken in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Any man who drops a Minocqua is a friend of mine.
Strikes me as the kind of damn man who loses his virginity in second grade… to the hot second grade teacher.