For those of us who watched the opening ceremonies of this year’s Cubs Convention on TV, a few things struck me.



Why didn’t I have anything better to do on a Friday night?



Tom Ricketts gave another Steve Jobs-style welcome, where he was clinging to the confidence monitors at the front of the stage like he’d just fallen off a cruise ship and found a buoy. He said that this was the 33rd annual Cubs Convention. The math checks out, but I was under the impression that it’s only the second annual, because the first 31 were officially called Loserpalooza.



NBC Sports Chicago had enough time to show the introductions of Cubs luminaries like Mike Fontenot, Terry Adams and Koyie Hill, but somehow had to dump out of the season highlight video just as it got to Game 5 of the NLDS in Washington. How are we ever supposed to know who won?



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