The T-shirt Cubs fans can appreciate
Cubs and Yankees fans don't have much in common. Yankees fans are spoiled with 26 World Championships, have ownership that wants to win at all costs and they can't seem to pronounce certain "r's" (Derek Je-tah, fuh-get about it, etc). But we share a common bond on one thing: utter contempt for one Kyle Lynn Farnsworth.
On the airplane ride to NY to see the Yankees vs Red Sox game over the weekend, I was reading Phil Rogers' column in the Tribune. He had one line about a t-shirt being sold outside of Yankee Stadium that says "Anybody But Farnsworth." I made it my mission to find one.
I knew it wouldn't be sold in any official Yankees merchandise shop, so I found a street vendor who had a pile of them. After bonding with a few crass words and mutual condolences about "The Farns" I paid him $10 for a simple t-shirt that says so much about a player who has broken so many hearts (and I'm not just talking about the lovely ladies in Wrigleyville).
My only regret is that I didn't have one at the infamous game against the Astros on August 27, 2004, when Kylie blew a lead and imploded, throwing his glove into the stands and spraining his knee while kicking an electric fan; the day the Cubs began the Death Spiral of 2004.
Producer, WGN Morning News
Mike Wilder