WRIGLEYVILLE — Riding to a baseball game in uniform might be a boyish hark back to childhood, but for one Cubs player, it's just another workday commute.
Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist said he's been riding his bicycle to Wrigley Field this past season, but decided to up his game a little by making the trip in his full Cubbie uniform this weekend.
"Ever since we've lived a mile away from Wrigley Field, I've wanted to ride my bike to the field. I've been doing that this year," Zobrist said in an Instagram video. "I thought, 'You know what? I just need to bring my uniform home and ride ready for the game.' "
Zobrist then plugs PF Flyers, which — as fans of "The Sandlot" surely know — are "guaranteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher."
Only '90s kids likely caught on to that classic movie reference, where Benny Rodriguez dons his PF Flyers before bravely scaling his neighbors' fence to retrieve his stepfather's baseball from a canine fearfully known as The Beast:
Zobrist is a huge fan of the shoes and the movie, as he shared on his own Instagram, @benzobrist18, last month.
"Ever since I saw Benny the Jet wear these in the Sandlot movie, I wanted a pair," he wrote.
His wife Julianne Zobrist shared the video on Instagram Saturday, before the Cubs lost 11-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers.
"My man is an old soul who plays old school baseball," she wrote.
The couple share lots of photos, including some with their own three cubs:
Last week, she shared some words of wisdom on WAGS (Wives And Girlfriends):
"Fiercely committed to her man, she has the ability to hear drunk men cursing her husband during the game, but the wisdom to be the bigger woman," Julianne Zobrist wrote. "She's got the guts to travel alone with kids eight months out of the year, because she knows that even just those couple of hours a day with dad are worth it...for him and her."
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