?I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.? Steve Zizzou in Wes Anderson?s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou. Now that the Boston Red Sox have broken their curse, the romanticism surrounding the franchise has waned. The Red Sox fan has transformed from a revered tortured soul into an obnoxious and spoiled cheerleader of a team with a bloated payroll. Chicago Cubs fans do not embrace curses with the same enthusiasm that marked the New England area from 1986 until 2004. Perhaps it is because of the beer, bricks and ivy, but you don?t see people in Chicago marching down Sheffield trailed by the tears of their 97 seasons of despair. Cubs' nation isn?t pretentious enough to display themselves in such a self-important manner. The Bartman seat has become a rallying cry, not an altar to kneel. If Bartman would have happened at Fenway Park, near Peske?s Pole, t-shirts would have already become a million-dollar business for some MIT grad student. Of course there are t-shirts, someone is always looking for a clever t-shirt and Bartman is an obvious target, but during three days at Wrigley, I didn?t see a single one. During the middle of a 2.5 hour rain delay, a Cubs? fan directed me to the Bartman seat, and then said, ?I was really mad because Mo Alou could have caught it.? I then went down and took a look at it, it now has a Cubs? sticker on the backrest. When I walked back up, the Cubs? fan started back in straight away, ?Of course we still should have gotten out of the inning.? Out of the dozen or so people that I spoke to during three days at Wrigley Field, there wasn?t a hint of tragedy in any of their voices as they recalled their versions of what happened down the left field line on that fateful October 14th night in 2003. Another apparent Cubs? fan said ?Steve who?? when asked about his thoughts on that game against the Marlins. Though the Marlins scored eight runs in the 8th inning following the Luis Castillo foul ball that Bartman prevented Moises Alou from making a play on, Cubs fans do not forget that Alex Gonzalez fumbled a routine double-play ball that would have allowed the Cubs to escape the inning up 3-1, and just three outs from playing the Yankees in the World Series. Maybe it is because the Red Sox had the Yankees taunt them for all those years while they won a couple dozen World Series championships. Of course the Cardinals have been storied, but certainly not even remotely in the vicinity of the Yankees. Maybe it is because the confines of Wrigley are just that good to make you forget. How depressing can a July day at Wrigley Field possibly get? Maybe it is because there is no Dan Shaughnessy writing books glorifying the downfall, coupled with the Chicago Tribune?s Cubs? bias. But at the end of the day, it is simply Ben Affleck?s Hamlet versus Bill Murray?s Steve Zizzou. Christopher Reina is the executive editor of RealGM.com and he may be reached at [email protected].