I’M COMING TO LOVE the Chicago Cubs’ playoff baseball adventure, particularly the Chicago Tribune’s coverage of the Tribune Co.-owned Cubs. One feature article asks seriously, “Is it OK to pray for the Cubs?” The paper’s website home page also includes a Wrigley Field photolog, including a shot of a guy bearing a banner reading, “CUBS IN OCT. TEMP IN HELL: 32F.”

None of this praise, natch, is meant to slight Wednesday’s other baseball-playoff triumph, the Boston Red Sox’s righteous thrashing of the loathed Yankees.

SOME MORE REASONS TO KEEP THE P-I IN BUSINESS:

• Its unexpected, back-of-the-sports-section history lesson about the day legendary Nat-Am Chief Joseph attended a UW football game.
• Its tell-all headline about the latest city-budget mess, “Cut somewhere else, everyone tells council.”