Jonathan DanielFULL DISCLOSURE: Your humble author has attended three of five Pearl Jam shows at Wrigley Field and wept openly at four of them. This generally occurs when Eddie Vedder performs “All the Way,” the monolithically earnest acoustic sea chantey he wrote in 2016 when the Cubs won their first World Series since 1774, the year that they validated all our hopes, the year that I got to call my 93-year-old grandmother and tell her the Cubs won it all, the year that FAITH IN THE UNIVERSE WAS RESTORED for about 20 minutes until the election.
Anyway, “All the Way” is the culmination of years of Cubs fanship from the north-side native Vedder, who is seen on the 2016 concert film “Let’s Play Two” wandering outside his Wrigley cathedral in his 1992 skater-shorts-and-four-shirts grunge years and sobbing on the Progressive Field concrete in Cubs GM Theo Epstein’s VIP box when the Cubs won it all in Cleveland. Also he’s (checks papers): sung “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” 400 times, brought..