The Cubs are playing the first game of the NLDS against the Dodgers. This is as good a team as the Cubs have had in, oh, 100 years, but as everyone knows, there's no such thing as a sure thing on the North Side of Chicago.

I keep thinking back to 2003 - how everything seemed so right, before Bartman, before the botched double play, before having my heart handed back to me in tatters. Since then, I've watched the Red Sox, the White Sox, and the Cardinals all win the World Series, and grew a little more jaded each time. So it's been hard to love this team, even though they've given me every reason to.

I remember the little moments when I couldn't stop smiling, happier than I could have reasonably expected. And there was one drive home when the wheels literally - really, figuratively, but really, figuratively literally - didn't touch the ground the whole way. That was worth the heartbreak, I think. Sometimes I worry that I may never have that again.

Dodgers 7, Cubs 2.