2020 has been a bad year for pretty much everyone as a global pandemic continues to alter our daily lives. Some of us have lost more than others, but we’ve all lost some combination of routines, hobbies, or jobs. If you’re reading this, there’s at least one thing I suspect we’ve lost in common: baseball generally and the Cubs specifically.
I’ve lost something extra during all of this that I hope you haven’t: my father.
While he didn’t die of COVID-19, that doesn’t really matter in the end. The loss was just as sudden and cruel and he left the same strange, unrecognizable world from which too many others have also departed in this unfathomably sad year.