Partly cloudy and 82 for Tarik Skubal’s 1st start at Wrigley. Get in the door for 5 1/3 Tiger Rolls from Ukai Sushi on Belmont, just a 13 minute walk from Wrigley; bleachers for 8 1/3 Tiger Rolls; all you can eat/drink seats for 22 Tiger Rolls. Go get ‘em tonight, fellas.

Kids down, dishwasher is running which means I get ten whole minutes to myself to zone out in peace. Bliss.

Good morning, dudes. You can do it, unless you can’t in which case at least you tried.

PCA took three walks today and that’s a good reminder of all of us that we should be getting our steps in.

Just got off the plane and the woman who was sitting behind us told me “Your kids were so well behaved!” And as a parent of two young kids, there is no higher compliment you can get after a 2 1/2 hour flight.

Me: “I’m surprised there’s not more merchandise from the local minor league team at this airport.” My wife: “That’s because nobody is more interested in minor league baseball merchandise than you in this airport.” She’s got a point. Saturday morning in Fort Myers.

Toddler: “We go to the Bananas game and wear our fire trucks shirt today?” Today is gonna be a good day.

Patrick Kane playing with Connor Bedard is a real circle of life moment, like if Michael Jordan got to play with Derrick Rose.

Solo parenting tonight while my wife has a girls night and my toddler is eating ketchup meant for her fries with a spoon and ya know what, why not. Tuesday.

My toddler is currently running around in circles in our living room singing "Go Cubs Go," to which she knows all the words of the chorus, and I have never been prouder in my life.

Sat down on the recliner in my toddler’s room this morning and she immediately came over, dropped three books on me, and hopped in my lap and I’m gonna take this as a sign I’m doing something right as a parent.

Anthony Rizzo really is a Wrigleyville bro isn’t he

Three beers deep into my night. Life, man…it’s good.

My GOD, this Sammy Sosa shirt I found at my dad’s is insane.

Nothing better than escaping the great outdoors for the fresh air of an underground red line station, that’s what I always say.

The irony in a team called the Fire having to reschedule a game due to poor air quality resulting from smoke…

Front desk guy at the gym: “Hey have you seen this hot new trend that Starbucks is doing this week? It’s been all over Instagram.” Me: “I haven’t…what is it?” Him: “Yeah you give them currency, and they just…give you whatever you want.”

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It is already muggy and gross outside here in Chicago.

Death, taxes, someone posting a picture of concrete on the lakefront and calling it a beach causing the internet to lose its goddamn mind.

Some nights in Wrigleyville you can’t hear the ballpark and some nights you can and tonight, you can hear the concert almost crystal clear and loud.

Every extremely online/not online couple this morning is having some variation of the “Hey babe, major political news overnight.” “McConnell?” “No no, different Senator.” conversation this morning.

The Cubs have drafted a Cade and a Caden today and have a Cade on the big league team. Okay then.

Didn’t know who Erling Haaland was three weeks ago and now I would run through a wall for him

Justin Verlander is retiring after 21 years of playing a game while wearing glorified expensive pajamas to work and never has to work another day in his life and ya know what, good for you man.

Did not realize until I became a parent how important having just one hour to myself to work out per day was going to be for my mental health.

That legit sounded like $100k in fireworks going off in Lakeview just now. A whole grand finale on July 6.

The USMNT is playing with all the urgency of the Bears picking a stadium site.

My kids both slept in (slept in being a relative term), the youngest is sleeping on me now, I’ve got a fridge full of cold beer, I drank an entire cup of coffee WHILE IT WAS STILL WARM, and we don’t have anywhere to be today. I don’t have to see a single firework and today rules.

Not official but given how hard it’s currently raining by the ballpark, I’d plan on today’s Cubs game starting in a delay. Find a bar, get cozy or just stay home for another hour or so

Girl are you a USA red card because I don’t deserve you