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``My wife is a Chicago Cubs fan. And if you don't know what that means, then you've simply never known a Cubs fan. You've never known someone who feels a connection to a baseball team on a level the rest of us can barely understand.

The Chicago Cubs hold quite a few notable records. They're the oldest active team in American sports. They haven't won a World Series in 105 years, which is the longest championship drought of any major North American sports team, and they play in Wrigley Field, the oldest National League ballpark in the country, having been built in 1914. The team is the longest continuously existing franchise having existed in the same city for their entire history.

If you've never been to Wrigley Field, it's truly something to behold.

First of all, your seat might be right behind a two-foot wide iron girder, making it impossible to see anything but the two-foot wide iron girder. They still have a scoreboard that someone sits inside of and changes the score by hand. And it sits in the middle of an area on Chicago's North Side known informally as "Wrigleyville," with bustling city streets on all sides. On the rooftops of the surrounding buildings there are bleacher-style seats that get sold out just like the seats inside the ballpark.''



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