Three in a row...

...look at them go!  You might be saying "Meh.  It was the Nationals" and that makes a good, albeit dickish, point.  Counterpoint: it's also the Cubs.

Another plus, at least we aren't blowing 9-run leads, despite it being all the rage today.

*And yes, I badly photoshopped an finger on Alfonso Soriano.

Goodbye, Lou

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness -- wait a sec, that's not right -- it was the best of times, it IS the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it IS the age of foolishness...it was the season(S) of light, it IS the season of darkness.

Lou's mom needs him much more than the Chicago Cubs do so no sense wasting time going through the motions to October when this team's been done since...June?  May?  April?  Spring Training?  I haven't always been rocking a Team Lou baby tee (though I do have one in the back of my closet), but - while he's not leaving with a Cubs ring on his finger - those back-to-back playoffs were pretty cool.  Cheers to Lou.

A humble recommendation

Far be it for me to tell you where to do your online perusing, despite my intimate knowledge of frizz forecasts and the Magic 8-ball.  Nevertheless, I must suggest that should you follow the Cubs games online, you consider somewhere besides Y! Sports, lest you be the asshat out on a Friday night broadcasting to the table that the Cubs won 3-2 with Marmol narrowly escaping a bases-loaded jam.  Not only did Yahoo!'s live box score display this, but its play-by-play remains the same seven hours later.

 

Goodbye, D-Lee

What a crappy (and strange, considering the whole Angels veto a mere 22 days ago) end to yet another fan favorite's (and more importantly, delicious eye candy's) career as a Cub.  Oh well...add it to the list of reasons this season has left us a broken, hollow mockery of the human condition.  

Good luck, you perfect specimen of man.  May you fill out the Braves uniform as equally teasingly.

Perhaps an issue of challenge/stimulation

Carpenter?  Lincecum?  Halladay?  No problem.  

But give them a Chris Narveson or Russ Ohlendorf and they curl up in the fetal position, wetting themselves.

I will never understand this team.

As I type, the Cubs are up 4-0 in the first inning off of Tim Lincecum and his 2-time Cy Young'n flowing dark locks.  

Or what?

“Spiraling out of control? We need to turn it around, no question,” Piniella said. “It’s no fun to go out there and get beat. We’re playing good teams. We’ve got San Francisco, we’ve got St. Louis and then we’ve got San Diego and then Atlanta. We better be up to the challenge to play better.”

Forgive me for being Sally Spiteful here, but since this team has already managed to disappoint, humiliate, anger, shock, confuse and bemuse - all while sucking themselves out of even the longshot thought of a race - the looming consequences (sixth place instead of fifth?) of staying on a control-less spiral-y course don't really have an effect on my fun.

P.S. They're not up to the challenge, Lou.

 

Ted: Then & Now

Esteemed TedHead that she is, KD found the first pictures of Ted in a Dodgers uniform.  Upon review, she shared her concerns - with which I concurred and offered my own notations.  WARNING - the photo you are about to see is graphic and may be disturbing to grieving Cubs fans. Please view with caution.

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The hangover...and over again

Just got back from my cousin's wedding weekend.  (A cousin who proposed during a Wrigley tour, on the field, in the on-deck circle, with the ring inside of a carved-out baseball.  That sound you hear is my piercing squee of jubilation.)  The festivities didn't preclude me from hearing about this, this or this.

Needless to say, I took full advantage of the open bar, the hotel bar, the mini bar...