Cubs Outreach

Tom sent this report from the outreach at the Cubs game:

I think that this was the first warm Cubs opening day in history.  It is usually bitterly cold with a stiff wind coming off of Lake Michigan but it was surprisingly warm this time.  I was excited by this prospect because I thought that this would mean a lot of opportunity for our team.  Unfortunately, things did not turn out so well.  I was only able to recruit two other people other than my son and I so we had only four.  We hit such heavy traffic coming in that we only arrived about one hour before the game.  There were three of us in one car and the other person was to meet us there.  When we got to Wrigley Field there was such a mob for about a block around the stadium that we could not move enough to hand out tracts and we could not find our fourth person.  One of us circulated in the crowd and was able to get out a few tracts and I took my son about two blocks away from the stadium to a place with a narrow sidewalk that had constant foot traffic.  I got excited again because there was heavy traffic and enough room for us to hand out the tracts.  The problem was that no one would take them!!  I have never had such a low take rate when handing out tracts.  More discouraging was the look that people had on their faces.  It was so empty!  It was almost as if they were in a trance.  Cubs fans tend to be affluent and it was obvious to me that the vast majority of the people were of substantial means and seemed to have contempt for anyone trying to hand them something.  I thought that perhaps it was my outfit but the fourth person (who I had given tracts before the outreach) reported a similar lack of willingness to take the tracts.  In the end we got out about 500 tracts but we should have gotten out thousands.