For all Chicago Cubs fans, every new baseball season means another season of optimism. Just 162 games stand between us and our first pennant since 1945.

Ryne Sandberg is back. The Cubs are holding their own in the Central Division. Wrigley Field and its green ivy walls are as poised as ever to host the World Series. I'm hopeful.

I have been a Cubs fan since I was a child growing up in the Chicago suburbs. Despite more than half a century of frustrated pennant dreams, the Cubs ar ...

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