The Cubs will protect you

August 24th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

There are those who think baseball is a boring game and never bother to watch it on TV. Fair enough. I can see their qualms, although I don’t entirely agree. There are those who watch the game casually, flipping around channels and peering in for the score here and there.

And then there are people who stay up later than usual to watch the Cubs take on a West Coast foe and it damn near saves their lives.

Instead, Wednesday’s late game had Ben Von Bruenchenhein up and in the living room of his Arlington Heights apartment about 10:15 p.m., watching Cubs star Aramis Ramirez smash a game-tying double.

That was also when a bullet ripped through his 15th floor apartment, slicing through the wall just above his bedroom pillow.

Von Bruenchenhein has little doubt what saved his life — the Cubs.

“If it wasn’t a West Coast game, I would be asleep or reading a book in bed,” said Von Bruenchenhein, 36, who is currently reading Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen.

“The shot went between my bed and my light and my alarm clock.”

Whoa. As E told you over at FanHouse earlier today, it was not Diddy who fired the shot, but the guy’s 82-year-old neighbor who forgot his gun was loaded and pulled the trigger when he was moving it. (An 82-year-old man should not be moving a gun. He should keep it in one place always and use it when someone is trying to kill him or whatever. Or maybe he just shouldn’t have one at all. )

Anyways let this be a lesson to you out there: watching the Cubs lose to the Giants could save your life. Although, watching them not win a World Series title the last 100 years might also kill your heart and soul. OH SNAP!

{Also see: Out of Right Field.}