I have been a huge Cubs fan since moving to Chicago over twenty years ago, but last Friday the team informed me that it no longer desires my support. It did so by holding a moment of silence and lowering the flags to half-mast in honor of racist provocateur Charlie Kirk, who believed, among other things, that “black women don’t have the brainpower to be taken seriously” and that gay people should be stoned to death, and that “Nuremberg trials” should be held for doctors who provide gender-affirming care. To put this in context, the Cubs did nothing to honor the memories of the Democratic State representative and her husband murdered by a MAGA extremist last month. Nor did they do anything when another Trump supporter attacked the elderly husband of Paul Pelosi with a hammer. Nor when Gabby Giffords was shot by a MAGA fanatic. But they feel that this loathsome, hatemongering piece of shit deserves to be “honored”? All 30 major league teams have played home games since Kirk’s death, and 28 of them did the right thing by not allowing their brand to be exploited by extremists for partisan political purposes. Now I just have to pick which of those 28 to support. It breaks my heart to leave (and throw away a few hundred bucks worth of hats and T-shirts), but clearly the Cubs only want white Christian heterosexual fans now, so fuck 'em. May they finish in the basement for the next hundred years.
I’ve been a Cubbies fan since 1972. Barring an apology for this dick move, I will no longer be a Cubbies fan.
Wow. That’s not a good sign. Things are starting to get a little concerning….
Cubs owners are huge MAGA heads. This is well known.