The Bernstein Brief: Put The Phone Down And Watch
By Dan Bernstein--
CBSChicago.com senior columnist
(CBS) Buses will roll from Wrigley Field to Grant Park on Friday for an unprecedented rally, celebrating a Cubs championship a century in the making for an exuberant city still at a loss for words. Players will wave at millions of people lining the route and surrounding the stage, but most of the fans will be too busy shooting video and taking pictures to actually look at them and create that moment of connection. That is, if the players themselves aren't too busy doing the same themselves.
This is a pitch to not to forget to view this with just your own eyes and really see it for what it is and what it means.
There's no need to rush to post your own footage on your social media pages, because so many are doing the same and even if nobody were, the professionals are. You will be able to watch it again, over and over as many times as you want, forever.
Holding a rectangle of metal and glass between you and what you came to see is ironic, taking all that time and making such an effort to be part of something only to obscure it. Your eyes are cameras, your brain a recording device.
It's no less real and no less tangible to just live it. And it could be even more so.
Dan Bernstein is a co-host of 670 The Score's "Boers and Bernstein Show" in afternoon drive. You can follow him on Twitter @dan_bernstein and read more of his columns here.
