Originally Posted By: jburkeson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
All,
Everyone knows that the Cubbies are the better team and deserve to win, hell each player has performed in over 250 seasons. The cubs have been at so long and have done everything right, they have a great organization, stellar farm team that produces fine apprentice players, top management, a playbook of practice, a code of ethics, etc.
We also know that the upstart Marlins have not paid their dues, many have not played the requisite 250 seasons and have not struggled coming up through the approved farm team. To add insult to injury, the Marlins drafted a crotchety old manager with questionable pedigree who went out into the market and cobbled together an inferior team that nobody said would win.
I am speechless, the deserving long-suffering we-have-always-done-the-right-thing Cubbies have been beaten by a Johnny-come-lately expansion team, with a know-it-all manager of dubious background. How could it happen? What about the 250 seasons? Does nobody care about the future of baseball or protecting the fans from a team that would place winning above fan protection? And what what about the 250 seasons, there ought be a law!
For us, in the Home Inspection profession the parallels are obvious. Not always does the best team win, sometimes it is the team that has the most talent coupled with a little luck. Go Marlins!
Joe Burkeson
-- Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)
?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Originally Posted By: jmyers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
The best National league team, now there is a contradiction in terms. Wasn’t that the cubs that chocked last year? And this year will be different! Yeh, right. I think they are taking chocking lessons from Philadelphia!
Originally Posted By: rlind This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Being a lifelong Chicagoan, and currently living a $1.50 train ride to Wrigley Field, I have partaken in MANY Cubs games in my 41 years.
I recall vividly the collapses of 1969, 1984, 1989, 1998, and now 2003.
2003's collapse is the King of them all. They were up 3 games to 1, with the final two games being played in Wrigley Field with two of the games best young pitchers on the hill for the Cubs.
Mark Prior and Kerry Wood could not stop the attack of the "Fighting Fish".
The "Curse of the Billy Goat" lives on in infamy.
(But, the Billy Goat Tavern remains on of my favorite spots for a "Double Cheezborger" and a Coke!)
....and for us Red Sox fans, the "Curse Of The Bambino" lives on as well.
WHICH CURSE IS WORSE? 
Originally Posted By: rlind This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Chris,
You might as well commit yourself to the entire array of underachieving professional sports teams in Chicago....Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Black Hawks, and Bulls (not counting the fabulous 1990's!).
Misery loves company.
I don't know what is worse - your being engaged to a Red Sox fan, or me being married to a Yankees fan!  Okay, she is a displaced Allentown, Pennsylvania woman, but shouldn't that make one a Phillies fan???
Originally Posted By: cradan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Yeah, Ron, you’d think so. I think you’d have to be a Phila. teams fan to be able to truly commiserate with Chicago fans, considering how long it’s been since any of the PA teams one a “big one.” At least here in Chicago, the Blackhawks occasionally play well, and the Bulls’ championships are not totally “ancient” history…
On a personal note, I'm once again cruisin' for a bruisin', since my finacee's other favorite team (the Pats) plays the Dolphins tomorrow, and I've been "buttering her up" by whispering in her ear that the Pats are going to get whacked...
Did you forget about branding the fan when the full member was the one that booted the ball. 
