#68: "When you're born in Chicago, you're blessed and you're healed/ The first time you walk down to Wrigley Field..."

#68.


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The Single: All The Way (live in Chicago)
The Artist: Eddie Vedder


Some of my favorite songs are when artists sing about how much they love sports. The Hold Steady have a beautiful version of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", Bob Dylan has a fantastic song about Catfish Hunter, etc. Eddie Vedder perfectly sums up how all Cubs fans felt back in September, when the north side was full of hope and awe and wonderment. And while it's no surprise that the boys in blue managed to blow it against the Dodgers when it mattered, this is a song which feels timeless. Hopefully, Vedder is right, and one day we'll all be drenched in beer, crying like babies, and seeing the Cubs win it all. I just hope I'm alive to see it.