The NFL Draft being done, the football fuss is winding down, so let’s talk baseball. My thoughts are on the Cubs because I forever have been a Cubs fan. I’m a little guy, about 5’5” and 140 lbs, but a very big Cubs fan. In fact, 72 years ago, when I was 15 years old, I talked my way into a job as Cubs bat boy and so loved the Cubs that when, after two seasons, my bat boy job ended, I chased after my parents to please, please move our family from Rogers Park to Wrigleyville where I wanted us to live so that when the Cubs played at home I could do what Wrigley villagers do: Put on my mitt and hang out on Waveland Ave. to chase home runs flying over the left field bleachers in Wrigley. I would not want to live in Wrigleyville now because of an ordinance just passed by the Chicago City Council permitting two more of those huge signs on Wrigleyville rooftops, one of them to advertise Coca-Cola, another to advertise paint, despite the fact that Wrigleyville is a lovely, peaceful, residential neighborhood. That ordinance permitting more signs says the money the signs earned is to be shared with the Cubs, which raises a fair question, or fair to me, anyway. How much more money do the billionaire Cubs owners need? A fair answer, to me, anyway, is as much more money as the Cub owners can get. But the neighborhood needs is for some Cub pitching to strike out the ordinance.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: