In a similar longevity vein, this year marks the 70th year that Dick Carparelli has been a golf professional at Beverly Country Club. He is 99 this year and is down to one day a week, but as recently as two years ago, he was at the club five days a week giving lessons. He started at Beverly the year that "It's a Wonderful Life" was released, one year after the end of the war, one year after the Cubs were last in the World Series. We South Side Beverly guys are glad that the good guys won the war and glad that the angel Clarence jumped from the bridge to save George Bailey.
Most of us aren't troubled by the fecklessness of the Cubs in the intervening years, but they may not be saying, "there's always next year" given the talent they have on the North Side this year.