As fans of a currently downtrodden baseball team in Minnesota -- and as good citizens who'd like to see a team (any team) break a 108-year streak of baseball futility -- we're all rooting for the Cubs to varying degrees, right?
So here's a little something to brighten your team from a couple of Cubs fans in Nebraska.
Take a break from work or school. And, if you can get away with it, find a way to play this on all the monitors in your office or at school.
Or just enjoy.
Now that you've watched that, here's the story behind the story of Go Cubs Go, which was written by Steve Goodman, a popular Chicago folk singer who died in 1984 at the age of 36.
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