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This summer, Kilponen met one of the hosts, Corey Fineran, in Chicago, and the two arranged to go to some games together.

The hosts invited him to voice an intro for the show inviting fans from all over the world to listen in. 'I feel like I'm their good luck charm.'Ī few years ago, after listening to the Ivy Envy podcast, Kilponen emailed the hosts to let them know they had a fan in Australia, and they struck up a friendship.

'I'm very proud of my 9-3 record,' he said with a laugh. 'I remember when they were playing the Marlins, and I was sitting in the bleachers with my mates drinking beer, and Carlos Marmol threw 14 balls in a row to lose. 'They've been pretty awful for my 10 years,' he said of his relationship with the team. He wants to make one thing clear, and that is although he respects the lifetime bond most Cubs fans have with their team and acknowledges that is not him, he will not cop to the bandwagon label. But it was cricket that became the nation's summer sport, while baseball, even with its Australian Baseball League, jointly owned by Major League Baseball, was delegated to minor sports status among Australian fans.įor Kilponen, Australians' love of the underdog only cemented his devotion to the Cubs. There's a long history of baseball in Australia, dating to the 1850s, when American gold miners first brought the game there.

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Kilponen played baseball in elementary school, taught by a gym teacher who loved the game and started a league, and Kilponen played until he began working as a professional photographer. 'People talk about it being spiritual and magical. I was transported to another time and almost instantly connected. This is my team.' I'd always known about the Cubs and how desperate their lot was to win the World Series, but when I went to Wrigley, it was so physically overwhelming to stand there and look at the ivy and see the scoreboard. 'I was so filled with emotion when I walked on those grounds,' he said, 'I was like, 'Oh my God. And he lives for his frequent trips to Chicago, the first in 2006, his first major league game, when the Earth's rotation paused for just a second and the sports photographer who spent 24 years with the Sydney Morning Herald knew one thing for sure.

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He offered free hamburgers and hot dogs.Īnd so the father of two channels Ernie and watches the beloved by himself on his MLB package. Once, Kilponen craved Cubs fellowship so badly that he put out the word on social media and on the 'Ivy Envy' podcast for a meet-up at the Forresters, a Sydney pub where you can have a beer at 10 in the morning and watch live American sports. He thinks there's another in Wollongong, a 90-minute drive from Sydney. There's another guy in Melbourne, a one-and-a-half-hour plane ride away, with whom Kilponen exchanges the occasional tweet. She will leave him alone on the couch, where the 51-year-old from Sydney, Australia, will hold down his city and, for all intents and purposes, his continent as the biggest Cubs fan Down Under. He might call up to his wife, Fiona, who will be supportive but will make her own plans for the day. Then he'll tweet a little and maybe read some of his favorite Cubs bloggers. He'll check the weather forecast and get nervous if it's chilly because of how he thinks it might have affected the Cubs in the NLCS against the Mets last year. And he'll be holding his good luck game ball from the Cubs-Phillies game in 2010, when Chicago won 12-6 with 16 hits. He'll definitely have on his new 39/30 fitted classic 'C' cap. If he's in the right mood, it'll be the Cubs' party shirt, the one with hot dogs and logos from different eras that his wife, remarkably, loves. He'll wear his Ernie Banks T-shirt or his 1915 replica jersey, the '80s throwback or the standard home and away.

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He'll probably warm up for the game by hooking his computer up to his big-screen TV and playing the Katie Day video 'We Got the Fire,' the Cubs' postseason hype song, because it gives him goosebumps.

Meet Dallas Kilponen, the Cubs' most devoted fan Down Underĭallas Kilponen will be watching Cubs postseason games as he has watched every other game this season, and the season before that, and the one before that.

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