If you didn’t receive an email alert about this post it’s because you aren’t subscribed to my e-mail list. Along with every other Cubs fan since Wednesday night. When the sun in shining, we know that God is smiling. We know God is a Cubs fan because God cried with all of us after the 8th inning on Thursday.Īnd we know God is a Cubs fan because today, as the team prepares to celebrate with fans in Chicago, the sun in shining. Those things happened because baseball players made them happen.
We know God is a Cubs fan not because the Cubs won, not because of home runs or clutch game-winning RBIs or even inspirational speeches. But God’s tears made it possible for Jason Heyward to rally the team with an inspirational speech before the 10th inning. But then came the greatest 10th inning in Cubs history. It looked like we were going to come thiscloseagain, only to suffer another heartbreak. Along with Cubs fans everywhere, God had started crying.
When did the rain start? Only after the Indians tied the game in the bottom of the 8th inning. So where’s the proof that God is a Cubs fan? The rain. If all it took was a victory, and if God really had a direct influence on these things, we might have been celebrating in 1969, or 1984, or 1989, or 1998, or 2003, or …Ī lead-off home run by Dexter Fowler to give the Cubs the all-important first run of the game? God liked that but didn’t make it happen.ĭavid Ross hitting a home run in his last baseball game? God liked that but didn’t make it happen.īen Zobrist’s double to score the go-ahead run in the tenth? God liked that but didn’t make it happen.Įvery other great moment in game 7 and the entire season that led up to it? God liked them, but God didn’t make them happen.
In the aftermath of Game 7 and a Cubs championship, it is clear that God isn’t just a baseball fan. Last week, while preparing to attend the first World Series game at Wrigley Field in 71 years, I provided Biblical proof that God is a baseball fan.