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Well this was the first baseball game I've watched in years. Since my introduction to hockey, baseball has become a bastard child to me. It's slow, boring and takes too long. All that's still true, but this was a pretty good damn game. Are we in the works for a Chicago\Boston world series? I believe either of those teams winning in a sign of the end times fastly approaching.

I hope they lose. Dusty Baker should have left Kerry in. Damn them! DAMN THEM TO HELL!

i like the cubs. i dont even know why i like them, but i do. they sorta got that loveable bum, brooklyn dodger thing going for them.

conversely, i still hate boston, despite suffering from similar ailments.

i'd like to see an all pint-striped series of yanks/cubs.

the wrigley field / yankee stadium interleague play games of this year were really fun to watch.

Indeed they were. I thought that series was the best baseball I saw played all year, personally.

I like Pedro, Manny and Nomar, but I can't stand the team as a whole, or the fans. They're extremely loyal and very into the games, which I respect and admire, but they bitch and whine and moan like the world revolves around them, as if they're the only people on the planet who have ever been dissapointed. By anything. 16 championships by the Celtics and they still say "We're cursed! We'll never win anything!" What a fucking joke.

I can't see the Red Sox winning it all with such a lousy and inconsistent bullpen, anyway.

I guess the Cubs just come off as the lovable losers. If it were up to me I'd like to see the Cubs and Sox just for the chance to see the Sox meltdown and blow it again. That and in little league I played on the Cubs for 10 years or so.
Also, I really like the idea that Babe Ruth's curse has been fucking with Boston for so long. Makes my heart fill warm at night.

FUCK OFF!

I really wanna see Boston/Chicago, but my gut tells me it'll be the Yankees and Marlins. Yankees because I don't know if Boston has what it takes the get past Joe Torre's boys and the Marlins because they're playing like they have nothing to lose.

But I'd really like to see Sammy make it to the big show.

I don't think the Marlins can beat the Cubs because as it stands, even if the Marlins win every other game, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior will get 4 starts, and right now I don't see how anyone is going to beat Prior and Wood. 4 starts, 4 wins.

http://reds.enquirer.com/2003/10/07/wwwred1daugherty.html

Can the apocalypse be far behind?
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Be careful what you wish for, CubFan. Your team is four wins from the World Series, and four more from a world championship. Eight wins in the next couple of weeks, and all your dreams will come true. What a nightmare.

If the Cubs win the World Series, they will cease to exist. They'll still play in precious Wrigley Field. They'll still have legions of loyal Yuppie fans. The Cubs will still revel in the ghost of Harry Caray and the joy of Ernie Banks.

But they won't be the Cubs.

You cannot, for example, call a team of world champions the "Cubbies." You can't claim martyr status if your team wins everything. Charlie Brown never kicked the football. We loved him for that. If he kicked it, we'd feel betrayed.

A Cubs world title would lead some to believe that life is fair, good things come to those who wait and patience is a virtue. None of which is true. World Champion Chicago Cubs would go from being a harmless oxymoron to a reason to believe for millions of chronic losers. Nothing is crueler than false hope.

Think about it, CubFan: Winning is dirty, ugly business. Instead of appearing noble and steadfast, you'll be front-running slugs. You'll be no better than YankeeFan. We hate YankeeFan.

Entire generations of Cubs sympathizers have crossed the ultimate river believing suffering is good, perpetual heartbreak builds character and no defeat is so wrenching it can't be fixed with a couple ice-cold Old Styles. If the Cubs win everything, nothing will ever be the same.

True CubFan is dreading the next few weeks. Because what was always fundamentally and happily impossible is now frighteningly logical. In the impossibly saccharine NLCS that begins tonight, the loveable Cubbies will begin their defeat of Geriatric Jack McKeon and his Florida Marlins.

If Atlanta couldn't hit Mark Prior and Kerry Wood, Jeff Conine surely won't. Then the Cubbies will advance to the World Series for the first time in 58 years, with the same two flamethrowers, throwing gas over all that sweet Cubs history. CubFan will rejoice in public. Privately, he will grieve.

He won't know how to act. He has always innately understood the world is a better place when the Cubs lose. He benefited personally from the certainty of it all. If the Cubbies win everything, CubFan will feel abject panic at not incurring the familiar break of the heart. He will be empty and stressed. This, after all, isn't how it's supposed to be.

(And good lord, if the Cubs ever play the Red Sox in the World Series, exorcists will be calling balls and strikes.)

The Cubs hadn't won a postseason series in 95 years. With a few notable exceptions, life has been pretty darned good since. A Cubs championship would seriously tweak the karma, and that's not healthy for any of us.

You'd be wise, in the next fortnight, to root for misery, CubFan. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. If you win it all, the mantle of misery will be passed on to BengalFan. No good can come of that.

Heh, that's a pretty funny article. The comparison to Charlie Brown is quite apt.

When it comes down to it, I think great pitching will beat great hitting a majority of the time. Pudge is definitely on fire right now, but he hasn't been facing pitchers of Wood/Prior's caliber(except Jason Schmidt, who shut out the Marlins).

Also, Kerry Wood's had great success against the Marlins in his career. He had back to back complete games against them in July, giving up just 1 run the first game, striking out 11, then following it up with a 2 hit shutout the next game.

I don't know. The post season can have an adverse affect on players. Up until the past couple years Bonds was terrible in the playoffs. Pedro has shown to be hittable. But realistically, the Cubs should win the series.

All true, but so far it doesn't look like Wood and Prior are beatable. Should be interesting to see if they can continue pitching so well.

Will someone tell Clement to shave that shit of his chin he looks like a fool!

it's more like: Cubs lose! Cubs lose! to the glass slipper of the playoffs, the Florida Marlins!

.... umm... cough 12-3... cough....