Late Chicago folk signer Steve Goodman was a Cubs fan -- and I forgive him.
My forgiveness, of course, is mostly based on one line in his tune, "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" where Goodman described his favorite team this way: "The doormat of the National League." It just kind of rolls off the tongue.
Also in that song, the dying man tells his friends:
"I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now/ So its just what I'm going to do/
He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs/ So its me that feels sorry for you!"
How true.

And when Goodman sang, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," he changed the lyrics to: ""It's root, root, root, for the home team, If they don't win, what else is new."
I respect the guy for that.
Goodman, who died in 1984 of Leukemia at age 36, also wrote "The City of New Orleans," The Lincoln Park Pirates" and the most hated song on the South Side, "Go Cubs Go."
This week, North Side Congressman Mike "Detroit Sucks" Quigley introduced a bill to name the Lake View Post office after Goodman as a tribute to his contributions to Chicago's folkie music scene.

Quigley told me he first got turned on to Goodman's music when he first moved to Chicago and used a fake I.D. -- "It said I was 22 and I probably looked about 12" -- to sneak into the Earl of Old Town, where Goodman was frequently on stage.

Quigley said he was inspired to name the post office after Goodman after the last Jimmy Buffet concert at Wrigley Field. At that show, Buffet dedicated Goodman's Grammy Award-winning song, "The City of New Orleans" to Goodman's mother, who was in attendance.

Side bar: Here's a YouTube Post of Goodman telling the story that inspired that song:

Goodman also wrote a song that lamented (and provided a few digs at) the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. The tune, "Daley's Gone" marked the late mayor's passing. (Click for lyrics.)
Quigley said he did not think Chicago's current Mayor Daley would hold a grudge against Goodman for writing an unflattering song about his father's passing. Or at least Daley wouldn't be honked off enough to try to stop a post office from being named after Goodman.

We'll be "watchdogging" Mayor Daley's twitter account to see if Quigley's right about that. That's right, Mayor Daley allegedly is a twitter-er or has a payroller twittering for him. Fran Spielman had the story first.

Maybe mail service in Chicago ain' t ready for reform.

It's been more than a year since mail delivery service here reached the seventh circle of hell — when our mail from across town would show up weeks late, bills and sale fliers arrived after after our payments were due and sales were over — and our overnight delivery remains the worst in the country.

Worse than New York City.

Overnight local mail delivery in Chicago has improved, but we're still the worst in the nation for getting our mail on time.

Has delivery in your neighborhood improved?

Let your voice be heard here.

Lake View resident Richard Eisenhardt sent me a letter to compliment his mail carrier and complain about the poor service at his neighborhood post office.
I had to laugh when the letter arrived crumpled, dirty and ripped inside a post office envelope that offered this apology, "Dear Valued Postal Customer ....

Post office sources told the Sun-Times that loads of mail postmarked in mid-February was delivered to local post offices on Monday to be sorted and delivered.

Did you get any old mail on Tuesday?

In-town, overnight mail delivery in Chicago is the worst in the nation. It's bad in almost every corner of the city. And a postal survey showed that only 77 percent of Chicago postal customers believe mail service is "excellent, very good or good." The national average for satisfied customers is 92 percent.

But which Chicago neighborhoods are suffering the most from the mail delivery?

Go ahead, post your mail "horror stories" here ...