Ugh
Yet again, it's a horrible time to be a Cubs fan. Absolutely terrible. The Cubs are doing a pretty decent job in making me forget about it by being rumored to be interested in just about every top player in the game of baseball, free agent or otherwise, but still, this is just gross.
It, yet again, it's a shitty postseason for Cubs fans. While some of us can relate to Tigers fans, who had it so shittily for years after their last World Series win (relatively speaking of course, it's been like 20 years. Honestly, suffer through 60 and we'll talk real pain), some of us, i.e. me, can't look past some shocking similarites between last year's cancelled World Series and expect this one to be cancelled as well.
Depending on where you live as a Cubs fan, you may differ in who you think is the biggest enemy of the Cubs. Is it the Sox or is it the Cards? I used to be a Cubs fan, which respect for the Sox, until I dated a White Sox fan. Actually, following that relationship, I could now see how it was impossible to like one and not hate the other. And, of course, the White Sox didn't play baseball in Chicago for years, as people forgot they had a team. At least on the North Side they did.
But I've also grown up in central Illinois. I've been around die-hard Cardinal fans much more than I've been around low-class baseball fans (oh snap!). Then, after college, I've lived in Decatur (almost equidistant between Chicago and St. Louis) and Peoria. Fans in these regions, for some reason or another, are almost split between the Cubs and Cards, and it's rare to see too many Sox fans.
Me? My hatred for both is pretty even, but I think the Sox are definitely leading as of late, what with all the postseason failings of the Cards.
However, I'm noticing some similarities between the Sox that played in the World Series whose records were washed away in a flood or something, and this year's Cardinals team.
1. They backed their way into the playoffs. Uh, the Astros made up something like 8 games in 9 days this year. The White Sox almost completed one of the biggest collapses in history, needing to take the series from the Indians at the end of the season last year to make the playoffs.
2. Light hitting outfielder hits game winning HR. Come on, So Taguchi? Really? Can't get him out? If he is allowed to do any sort of damage to your team, you should probably not be in the World Series. But that 3-run shot he hit the other night is kind of similar to the walk-off job Podsednik hit last year.
3. Mediocre pitching shuts down decent hitting. Uh, excuse me, Jeff Weaver? You sucked all season. Don't pretend you suddenly get how to pitch. And Jeff Suppan? I'm bewildered as to how he had a decent year as an average starter. There's no one pitcher I can compare from the Sox, so I'll just say the rotation in general.
So, I have a bad feeling that baseball may be outlawed for the next couple of weeks in America. I mean, hopefully it won't, so the Tigers can destroy the Cards in 4 games. And I'm pretty sure they will, since both their offense and pitching is better.
It, yet again, it's a shitty postseason for Cubs fans. While some of us can relate to Tigers fans, who had it so shittily for years after their last World Series win (relatively speaking of course, it's been like 20 years. Honestly, suffer through 60 and we'll talk real pain), some of us, i.e. me, can't look past some shocking similarites between last year's cancelled World Series and expect this one to be cancelled as well.
Depending on where you live as a Cubs fan, you may differ in who you think is the biggest enemy of the Cubs. Is it the Sox or is it the Cards? I used to be a Cubs fan, which respect for the Sox, until I dated a White Sox fan. Actually, following that relationship, I could now see how it was impossible to like one and not hate the other. And, of course, the White Sox didn't play baseball in Chicago for years, as people forgot they had a team. At least on the North Side they did.
But I've also grown up in central Illinois. I've been around die-hard Cardinal fans much more than I've been around low-class baseball fans (oh snap!). Then, after college, I've lived in Decatur (almost equidistant between Chicago and St. Louis) and Peoria. Fans in these regions, for some reason or another, are almost split between the Cubs and Cards, and it's rare to see too many Sox fans.
Me? My hatred for both is pretty even, but I think the Sox are definitely leading as of late, what with all the postseason failings of the Cards.
However, I'm noticing some similarities between the Sox that played in the World Series whose records were washed away in a flood or something, and this year's Cardinals team.
1. They backed their way into the playoffs. Uh, the Astros made up something like 8 games in 9 days this year. The White Sox almost completed one of the biggest collapses in history, needing to take the series from the Indians at the end of the season last year to make the playoffs.
2. Light hitting outfielder hits game winning HR. Come on, So Taguchi? Really? Can't get him out? If he is allowed to do any sort of damage to your team, you should probably not be in the World Series. But that 3-run shot he hit the other night is kind of similar to the walk-off job Podsednik hit last year.
3. Mediocre pitching shuts down decent hitting. Uh, excuse me, Jeff Weaver? You sucked all season. Don't pretend you suddenly get how to pitch. And Jeff Suppan? I'm bewildered as to how he had a decent year as an average starter. There's no one pitcher I can compare from the Sox, so I'll just say the rotation in general.
So, I have a bad feeling that baseball may be outlawed for the next couple of weeks in America. I mean, hopefully it won't, so the Tigers can destroy the Cards in 4 games. And I'm pretty sure they will, since both their offense and pitching is better.
posted by Jtrouble at 7:53 AM
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