Blagojevich Pens Letter to Daughter from Prison: 'So what that I won't be home to see the Cubs make it to the Promised Land'

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Cubs fan. | Jeffery C. Johnson

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s love for the Cubs is legendary. After the Steve Bartman foul ball incident in the 2003 when the Cubs were just five outs away from winning their pennant in 58 years, Blago suggested that Bartman enter witness protection.

Now serving a 14-year sentence for public corruption charges related to his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, Blagojevich penned a poignant letter from prison to his daughter, Amy, now a college student attending Northwestern University, saying, “So what that I won’t be home to see the Cubs make it to the Promised Land. You will be and that is far, far better.”

Racking it up “to another ugly irony we have to endure from this failure of justice,” Blagojevich says that if given the choice of him seeing the Cubs go to World Series or his daughter, “I wouldn’t hesitate a second and have it be you. You. Not me.”

The Cubs are behind 0-2 in the NLCS against the New York Mets. Amy will be taking kid sister, Annie, to the game when the Cubbies return to Wrigley Field this week.

Read Rod’s letter to his daughter in its entirety, posted by Patti Blagojevich on her Facebook page.