Sports obsessed kid here. While I rooted for the Cubs before 98, what fully hooked me was the HR chase in 98 plus the Cubs being good for the first time I could actually remember (I was 13 that year). I liked the Cubs due to WGN and them playing day games so I could watch baseball during the day in the summer. When school started in the fall that year, if the Cubs were at home I'd come home and tune into the game and anxiously await any mention of whether or not Sosa had homered that day.