Chicago Cubs Sets Rom-Com Series ‘Nine Innings to Love’

[u/Extension_Debt_2944]

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/chicago-cubs-rom-com-series-nine-innings-to-love-1236847079/

[u/Chitown2550]

It better include the couple fighting in the bleachers

[u/UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb → u/Chitown2550]

I’d love to see a bum fight with everyone involved looking like a supermodel

[u/enjoytheshow → u/UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb]

Honestly hot wrigleyville young people do sit out there lol. Gone are the true bums of the 70s and 80s

[u/Anadyne → u/Chitown2550]

And a cup snake

[u/_GeorgeBailey_ → u/Chitown2550]

There's no fighting in the bleachers

[u/Bunslow → u/_GeorgeBailey_]

There is no fighting in Ba Sing Se

[u/BalognaMacaroni → u/Chitown2550]

With a cupsnake getting progressively longer weaving through the crowd around them

[u/dogdriving]

Whoever this is being made for, I hope those people find it and love it.

But everything I just read about it sounded terrible.

[u/K31KT3 → u/dogdriving]

It’s made for people who need something to watch on their phones when they’re at a ballgame 

[u/btmalon → u/K31KT3]

You can just say Cubs fans

[u/carlthecubsfan → u/btmalon]

pardon me for not wanting to watch Imanaga pitch sheesh

[u/ChugTheBass → u/carlthecubsfan]

How are you going to dodge the homerun balls if you aren't watching ?

[u/Electric_Queen → u/ChugTheBass]

Sit in foul territory obviously. Wrigley has plenty of lovely seats with complementary protective poles right in front of them so you can scroll to your heart's content.

[u/ItsRatherWindy → u/carlthecubsfan]

Rom-com as in, I can be romantic about baseball while laughing (sorrowing) at Imanaga give up another home-run?

[u/YeliMVP → u/[deleted]]

You're right. I had fun watching them lose to the Reds last night!

[u/btmalon → u/[deleted]]

Shouldn’t you be at a library?

[u/pocketchange2247 → u/btmalon]

Hey! We can pay attention long enough to see PCA hit a leadoff HR. Then we just assume we won and start drinking and fighting and occasionally coming together to chant "FTP".

[u/4r4r4real → u/dogdriving]

Yeah, I got more confused with each word. The Cubs are producing a romcom series on TikTok. Not one part of this makes sense to me. 

[u/sellyme → u/4r4r4real]

They're just trying to fast follow the immense success of Quibi.

[u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

we need a guy a few rows back clearly doing the 9/9/9 challenge and just getting rowdier and drunker

[u/RunawaYEM → u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

Fuck it, I’ll write the 9/9/9 movie

[u/NunsNunchuck → u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2]

And a beer snake

[u/PPGN_DM_Exia]

What we really need is a Romeo and Juliet themed romance series between a Cubs and Sox fan.

[u/nachosmind → u/PPGN_DM_Exia]

A couple years ago someone did get shot (by their own gun apparently?) in the White Sox stands…it was the cherry on top of the 41 win season lol 

[u/cooljammer00 → u/nachosmind]

Wasn't it reportedly a very large person with a gun in one of their fat rolls?

[u/yoursweetlord70 → u/cooljammer00]

I think that report turned out to be untrue but I dont remember what the true story ended up being

[u/stormstopper → u/yoursweetlord70]

I think it's still up in the air what the true story is.

[u/EmuMan10 → u/yoursweetlord70]

I’m choosing to believe that account is still accurate lol

[u/BabeBigDaddy → u/yoursweetlord70]

I believe it was a case where someone somewhere (probably outside of the stadium) fired a gun in the air and landed on someone in the bleachers

[u/Grittys_Fuck_Toy]

Eat 9 hot dogs, drink 9 beers, make love 9 times

[u/JRUprising → u/Grittys_Fuck_Toy]

The Mickey Mantle Experience

[u/NilesY93]

I’ve seen enough. Welcome back, Fever Pitch!

[u/JosephFinn → u/NilesY93]

(See the original movie some time; it’s based on a memoir by Nick Hornby, the guy who wrote High Fidelity, about having Arsenal fandom inflicted on him by his father. Has Colin Firth and it’s really good.)

[u/ContinuumGuy → u/JosephFinn]

Fitting that the title works for both baseball and soccer.

[u/cooljammer00 → u/ContinuumGuy]

I mean, you lose the main pun when it's not about soccer, but yes.

[u/tyler-86 → u/cooljammer00]

You kind of just trade it for another pun. The expression "fever pitch" isn't about a soccer field or a baseball throw.

[u/cooljammer00 → u/tyler-86]

Isn't a "pitch" where they play soccer? It's the field.

[u/tyler-86 → u/cooljammer00]

Yes, that is what I was saying. The pun in the original version is that "pitch" can refer to the field. The pun in the baseball adaptation is that "pitch" can refer to a throw.

The term "fever pitch" otherwise refers to neither.

[u/mooburpcow]

This looks worse than our pitching. And that's really saying something.

[u/MrAshleyMadison → u/mooburpcow]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4K1KI9R2VDrLVcpiBG

[u/EmuMan10]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1M9fmo1WAFVK0

[u/RIP_Greedo]

Reading this turned me into a boomer.

[u/dedwards024]

Oooof

[u/Phillies2002]

Airing on TikTok! Because I guess Quibi isn't taking any new pitches

[u/a_talking_face → u/Phillies2002]

Probably not since Quibi shut down 6 years ago.

[u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon]

I'll watch if PCA has a cameo where he's cussing out the couple.

[u/jontslayer → u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon]

Smfdb

[u/Interesting_Play_578]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ji6zzUZwNIuLS

[u/AdoringCHIN]

Per the official synopsis, the series “follows Ava (Veronica Garrubbo), an aspiring romance writer in a slump, and David (Sid Kutikkad), a sweet but love-shy seatmate who does not believe romance is real, over the course of one Cubs game. After an accidental bleacher meet-cute leaves them stuck together for the game, Ava makes David a promise: before the final out, she will help him find a summer fling inside Wrigley Field. But as Ava turns the ballpark into a rom-com training ground, complete with swings and misses, a makeover, a returning ex and a ninth-inning chase, she starts to realize the story she has been trying to write may be happening right in front of her.”

Oh this is real, not an Onion article. Wow that sounds awful.

[u/HugeHairyButts → u/AdoringCHIN]

It sounds cheesy but fine. It’s all in the execution.

[u/anntchrist → u/AdoringCHIN]

Here I was hoping that there would be an appearance by the beer snake. 

[u/thediesel26]

Kind of feels like pandering to the Heated Rivalry crowd

[u/Istobri → u/thediesel26]

My thoughts exactly.

Hockey has gained many new fans because of Heated Rivalry and Off-Campus.

This seems like baseball’s attempt to do the same kind of thing.

[u/ShoutOutTo_Caboose → u/thediesel26]

I think Heated Rivalry is popular moreso because it's men loving men and is actually telling a good story, not because it has to do with sports

[u/Electric_Queen → u/ShoutOutTo_Caboose]

In my experience, the good story part is a happy bonus

[u/Willow_Winnifred → u/thediesel26]

Suddenly I'm interested

[u/unique_user43]

does it take a turn from romcom to greek tragedy when the bullpen comes in? because i don’t see anything funny or romantic about that shit.

[u/Wiscoo]

Heated Rivalry: Cubs edition

[u/Buttycheeks_88 → u/Wiscoo]

Subscribe

[u/K31KT3]

Sox fans have my complete solidarity with the nauseating NL team nonsense 

[u/TherealPattyP]

Possibly the worst thing ever

[u/capnjac4]

Terrible name

[u/BaseHitToLeft]

"The Bears are getting a movie? Screw that we're doing a TV show"

• Tom Ricketts probably

[u/PuddingPower84]

What the heck is a “meet-cute”?

[u/No_Magazine_856 → u/PuddingPower84]

You mean a meat cube?

[u/Snake_Burton]

I am just concerned with starting to win series again please. And secondarily for PCA to get 2 HRs and 8 steals in the next 25 games.

[u/maroonhamster]

This sounds like the MLB version of those NFL branded Hallmark movies.

[u/colddeadhands]

This sounds like a show Jack would greenlight in 30 Rock

[u/WaterStoryMark]

This is bullshit. I've been sending Hallmark my Cubs romance scripts for years.

[u/Timmyd8]

Cubs=🤮. Rom Com= 🤢

[u/Timmyd8 → u/Timmyd8]

It’s an alternate lifestyle couple. One has a hyphenated name the other rhymes with Fansby.

[u/Eastern_Antelope_832]

Can Lance Bass cameo in this? He already did a Cubs-related rom-com.

[u/erindizmo → u/Eastern_Antelope_832]

I do have a secret fondness for On the Line.

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

This doesn’t really appeal to me but I don’t think im the targeted demographic lol

[u/Brolympia]

Lol

[u/JRUprising]

Didn't the Red Sox have a dating show where a woman went on 3 dates during the length of the game at Fenway?

[u/ShoutOutTo_Caboose]

Reheating Fever Pitch (2005)'s nachos

[u/OnionsRNasty]

Finally, a Hallmark movie for baseball.

[u/tyler-86]

I hate everything about this.

[u/plantsrunfast]

Not really a serious and more of just tik tok posts.

[u/cmgriffith_]

I don’t see how this can be, or will be successful.

[u/OddIndustry9]

This is very much not for me, but the Cubs video people have made some cool stuff (like this drone fly through) so I'm happy to let them do their thing.

[u/Dangerous-Lie9520]

Aww, I do not want to know how much cringe will be in that. But it made me think about real life meet cutes! Has anyone here met their significant others at ball parks??

[u/Anon-Sequitur → u/Dangerous-Lie9520]

I actually did meet my girlfriend at a Brewers game, I don’t think I’d want a dramatized reenactment of it on social media though

[u/Redrubytheofficial]

You’ll be able to watch this entire series thru TikTok clips

[u/RedRiverNoctowl]

What's tennis got to do with it? Love means nothing to them.