Cubs Crap

When I was a kid, my two favorite teams that I followed religiously were the Cubs and Blackhawks. It's funny, they are the only two major professional sports teams in Chicago that haven't won anything in my lifetime.

I remember as a little kid, when I was first getting into baseball, looking up in an encyclopedia (remember them?) who all the World Series champions were in MLB. I still have a vivid memory of having disbelief that the Cubs haven't won one since 1908. I can still remember checking and double checking.

And I was looking at it back around 1970.

Cubs fans, I share your disgust and anger. It is appalling what happened. They have to upgrade somehow to be a good postseason team. And, I mean upgrade in character as well as talent. Whether that is an internal change or getting someone from the outside, I don't know. But, when you have basically the same cast of characters as last year's playoff - with the same embarassing choke job - something needs to be addressed about that. We will see. Next year will be watched more guardedly. They should win the division next year too. But that isn't enough, not anymore.

Oh my, things have changed since the days we were just happy to get in the playoffs (just a handful of years ago).

Kind of how Sox fans were this year. How lame. And, Sox fans, you won one more game in the postseason. So what. I guess your players and our players can talk about that on the golf course as the postseason continues on without us. I have already heard that from some of them. Man, that is soooo petty (and not Tom).

I just read that this was the most times in a decade the Cubs were in a postseason. Ever. I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.

I probably won't watch much more of the postseason. This officially concludes baseball talk for this year.

Maybe the Blackhawks can surprise us all and win a Stanley Cup.

Oh wait, they need to make the playoffs first...