Once again the cubs never cease to amaze me. They play 162 games and finish with the best record in the NL, then they make it to the playoffs and wet themselves. They got swept, by the LA Dodgers. It is not the fact that the Dodgers are not good, they played great, it is just that we are better than them, and we just did not show it.
Our best players all hit under .200, accept for Derrek Lee. Alfonso Soriano went an abysmal 1-14 and struck out for the last out of the game. Dempster threw 7 walks in 4 innings and we gave up 20 runs, to our petite 5. We did not even show up to the playoffs. We might as well of just thrown beachballs and hit with toothpicks. It is just depressing to talk about.
We have now lost 9 straight playoff games including the fateful Bartman game; which I attended. Many blame these losses on the Billy goat, and others on Bartman, but you can't blame a game solely on Witchcraft or bad placement. What most people forget is that Alex Gonzalez booted the next hit ball that would of surely ended the inning. And that the Billy goat and his owner are dead so the so called curse should die with them. Watch this video for a more in depth history of the Billy Goat.
The point I am trying to make is that we cub fans pride ourselves in the fact that there is always next year. But what if the year we wait for never comes? My grandmother who is 80 years old has been a cub fan all her life and has not once ever seen them win a World Series. My dad of 48, who knows the Cubs and baseball in general like the back of his hand, says that the team this year was the best he has ever seen. Even better than the 1969 cubs, who famously blew a 7 game lead with only 25 games left.
Maybe next year will be our year, but for right now I will just mourn, what feels like a death, the cubs and their terrible, terrible, post season performance.
1 comment:
Walt I know exactly what you mean. It was painful for me to watch the cubbies get swept. All of that hard work all season long went right down the drain. I think the problem was that they were so hyped all season long that this would be the year that they would finally win and that must have psyched them out. Sure, the Dodgers are a good team, but we are so much better and we didn't show it. The worst part was that since we got knocked out so early every cubs fan had to listen to White Sox fans talking smack. And by White Sox fans I mean Alex and Alan Nadolna. That was annoying.
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