Today’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) …
The WISCH LIST
By Dave Wischnowsky
For the past eight years, I’ve lived just six blocks from Wrigley Field. Considering that proximity, I can’t recall the last time that I’ve waited until mid-May to attend my first Chicago Cubs game of the season.
But such has been the drought level of my interest this year.
As a result, today – my 37th birthday – will be my first time walking through the turnstiles of the Friendly Confines in 2013. As an (almost) annual tradition, I try to attend a Cubs game to celebrate each birthday.
Clearly, I’m not dead-set ion having “happy” ones.
But much to my surprise, the Cubs have actually crept onto my good side as the game approaches. However, as for Chicago as whole, baseball has its weakest springtime pulse in decades – on both sides of town.
I figured I’d check it today, and weigh in with my thoughts about the sub.-500 state of both the Cubs and the White Sox as summer in the city starts to roll around.








