Congratulations...to the Chicago Cubs!

I wanted to congratulate my Chicago Cubs for clinching (tonight) the National League Central Division title for the 2nd straight year in a row!

                                   'Cubs celebrating 2017 Division Title'

And they did so tonight against their arch-rivals the St. Louis Cardinals, on their home field! It doesn't get much sweeter than that!

The Cubs are the first team to have won the World Series, and win their respective division for the first time since 2009, when the Philadelphia Phillies last pulled this feat.

The Cubs who won the World Series last year (2016) for the first time, since 1908, had THE longest 'drought' in major league sports. So having grown up a Cubs fan, and not thinking I'd ever see my team in the World Series, let alone win it, was nothing short of remarkable, and something I will never forget!

Chicago baseball fans are one of a few cities in all of Major League Baseball that has 'two' teams to root for. The other team (in Chicago) is in the American League (a league I just do not care for) is the Chicago White Sox. 

Though the city of Chicago did see the White Sox win the World Series back in 2006, I really could have cared less. I was happy for the city of Chicago. But I didn't even bother watching the series. I just don't like the White Sox.

And anyone familiar with Chicago can tell you when it comes to baseball, there is a major rivalry between the two teams, and their fans. It can get intense too.

They say 'history repeats itself.' Well if that is an indicator, keep in mind the last time the Cubs did win the World Series in 1908, they had also won it the previous year (1907)! So, they did repeat the last time they won the Series. That's something to keep in mind if you're a Cubs fan!

Realistically, the road to the World Series title, this year will be tougher. But Cubs fans are loyal fans. And if you've grown up cheering for the Cubs, no matter what happens, once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan. Go Cubs!!!

At least 32 looters are arrested across Florida during Irma crime spree: Thieves prompt SWAT standoff after robbing a store for GUNS while others are caught on camera breaking into a sports shop

Looters, looters, and looters! Always have to go through these 'scumbags' who use a disaster to get things they can't get without. Though there was some looting in Texas, it wasn't very much. I wonder why?

Possibly because the police departments made it clear, "looters will be shot!" Think that had an effect? I bet it did. And the fact that most Texans are armed.

However, prior to all these hurricanes, some may remember the narrative going on all the cable news networks was that Trump was 'racist,' he was 'dividing the country,' (due to his alleged comments about Charlottesville), which for the record- he was correct! 'Both sides' were indeed at fault for creating a climate of violence. You don't come to a rally 'armed' for peaceful protests, give me a break.

So while the mainstream media, owned and operated by 5 major corporations were hell-bent on 'dividing America,' in their efforts to start a race war, or possibly a civil war, we got hit by 'Mother Nature.'

Obviously, that wiped out all the talk about racism, and division being shown and broadcast all over the media.

Instead, we saw images of people coming together! Black Americans helping white Americans, and vice-versa. People helping people! What an image!

As Charles Dickens famously wrote, "These are the best of times, and the worst of times." So true.