Gather ’round the autumn bonfire noble friends, because due to the dearth of Cubs and other baseball news, it’s story time. Of course, I’m assuming you all know that Theo Epstein held a second interview with Astros bench coach Joe Espada by now.
Note: All literary quotes are from one of my favorite American novels, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain.
“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
Even if you are a casual reader, you know my love affair with the Cubs goes back nearly five decades and that most of that is due in part to my father, who raised me on the South Side of Chicago as a fan of the city’s North Side baseball team.