Baseball with Jesus

If Kerry Wood couldn't get the contract he deserved here, it's more than fair to let him go get it somewhere else.  It sounds like it was the best thing for him and, I hope, for the team.  Besides, I am, in fact, aware that people get traded in baseball and that nobody sticks around forever.

I understand all that, but: I have hardly any Cubs-related memories (good or bad) that don't involve Kerry Wood somehow.  I was just a kid when he started, and so was he.  So I didn't know this was coming, even though I probably should have.  I guess I really thought he would retire as a Cub.

Well, thanks, Kerry, and I hope you get that victory somewhere else; you deserve it.  But I wish it had been here.