Tthe first two months of the 2012 baseball season are currently up for discussion in this week's "High and Tight," the weekly rock n' roll baseball column I pen for Rolling Stone. Our esteemed panel — which now includes Vinnie Paul of Pantera/Hellyeah fame — weighs in on the year's biggest surprises and disappointments. And believe me, speaking as a Cubs and Tigers fan, there have been many...
Not that I'm remotely surprised by the Cubs' overall performance; at this point, Theo Epstein and Dale Sveum seem to be the only ones caught off guard by the unrelenting suckitude. Before the season started, I told my girlfriend that I thought the Cubs had a chance to win the NL Central... so long as all the players on all the rest of the teams in the division died. And even I'm not a hardcore-enough Cubs fan to hope for that outcome...
So let's flash back to a happier time in the Friendly Confines, eh? Dig this great minute-and-a-half of silent 8mm home movie footage taken before a Cubs home game against the Mets in 1971; considering that you can catch a glimpse of Tom Seaver warming up, I'm gonna guess that it's from July 22. Great sideburns abound, most notably those of Joe Pepitone, who can be spotted engaging in deep conversation with Jesse Jackson — probably about the best places in Chicago to pick up chicks.
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