Chicago Cubs: Social media sets fans hearts ablaze over foul ball incident

As everyone breathes a sigh of relief that no youngster had his foul ball taken at a Chicago Cubs game, perhaps we should take a deeper look at why Cubs fans are so emotional?

The Chicago Cubs are on the verge of losing three in a row to the Arizona Diamondbacks and what is the top story?

The bubba who did or did not take a foul ball from a kid during the game. Are you people crazy?

I love this town.

And excuse me for saying “town” if you think I mean those in the Windy City and its reasonable suburbs as far as Northern Indiana. Heck my brother-in-law Brett lives east in Granger, Indiana and is as big a Cubs fan as anyone. But in this instance, I am addressing the ‘Cubs Nation,’ as a whole. Yes, the millions that are scattered across the U.S. as far west as the sun sets. The millions wearing those old Cubs t-shirts or those flappy blue baseball hats or getting tucked in under those super plush Cubs throw blankets.

Yes, all of “you” are nuts.  Mostly you are nuts because you bought that super plush Cub’s throw blanket and to a lesser degree, got emotionally played by technology. Sorry to say, your Midwestern hearts and values were in the right place (as always) but in Cubs terms, your performance sucked.

Chicago Cubs: Jumping to conclusions

There’s an old newspaper and public relations saying that goes, “The first report is always wrong.”

That’s why technology is so dangerous. Just one clip that shows a big kid taking a ball from a little kid and people will get emotional. Except, these are not any ordinary people, these are crazy people.

Yes, I already told you – you are all nuts (that means crazy) and soon we have ourselves a bonafide CNN national hate-fest incident. Now I would expect this from White Sox – maybe even Cardinals fans, but Cubs fans should know better. I can already see the hate mail from the South Side and the Arch.

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It was as if this guy was becoming a national villain and why not? Let’s examine him:

He was wearing those dark sunglasses that are typical of folks that are about to do something dastardly. He had a pointed nose and a crew-cut hair style very similar to…convicted criminals! Yes! You had your man.

You crazy people could smell a bad guy across the room. But then the icing on the cake as the video came to its conclusion.

Bubba shows the ball to his wife and she takes it.

The masses went crazier! How dare you steal from that child to give your wife a gift?

What kind of woman is that? How could she take it from him?