The Cubs’ comeback from an eight-run deficit against Atlanta on April 14 was my favorite game of the year… and I did not see one second of the game as it occurred. As an avid Cubs fan, there’s very rarely a game I catch literally none of, but I had a pretty good reason on that blustery, rainy, frigid Saturday: I was busy getting married.
While perhaps I should have taken my lead from local radio host Matt Spiegel, who got married the morning of the 14th and took in the game from a Wrigley suite in place of a typical reception, we scheduled our wedding with no thought given to the afternoon start time. The Cubs were pretty far in the back of my mind while I said my vows and exited the church in a state of euphoria with my closest friends and family.
At the reception, one of my uncles came up to me and asked, “Did you see what the Cubs did today?” I had no clue, I told him… I had been otherwise occupied. I was then somewhat flabbergasted to find out that they had rallied for *nine* runs in the eighth to win a wild one at the Friendly Confines thanks to some timely hitting and some general incompetence by the Braves.
My wife and I like to think it was a pretty good omen as we started our life together.
Later that weekend, we caught highlights of the comeback, and enjoyed that windy and rainy rally from the comfort of our couch before topping it off with some leftover wedding cake. Even tangentially, I couldn’t help but have the Cubs be a part of the most memorable day of my life.
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