Why the Cubs will win it all

BuckeyeCub — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:18:21 +0000

With Octoberquest complete and baseball’s playoffs underway, the new magic number for 8 teams is 11. The Cubs are one of those teams. I’m really feeling it this year. So many things have happened since 2003, I really feel it. The Red Sox broke their misery in 2004. The White Sox broke their misery in 2005, leaving the Cubs as the only miserable team in baseball. Furthermore, the White Sox beat us to it in our city. Top it off with the fact that our next biggest enemies following the White Sox, the Cardinals, won it all in 2006.

This year, with the Cubs making the playoffs, all 5 of my teams did good this year. My Buckeyes made it to the national title game in both football and basketball only to lose to Florida in both. The Bears made it to the Super Bowl, only to lose thanks to Grossman. The Bulls made the playoffs only to get bounced in the 2nd round by the Pistons. How much more suffering am I supposed to take?

A few ominous signs this year have also given me an optimistic look. In June, Sam Zell’s attempted to screw the Cubs by vetoing the deal for Jacque Jones because he didn’t want to put more debt on the new owners tab, when this would have taken $600,000 off. Ever since the Cubs failed to trade the Frenchman, he has been a big part of the playoff run. Until September, the Cubs had never won a game with me in attendance. That all changed on September 5th, when they finally won with me in attendance. Last week, San Diego Padres outfielder Milton Bradley got into an argument with an umpire. It led to a full-blown confrontation, with Padres manager Bud Black needing to restrain Bradley. In a very Cubs-esque moment, Bradley tore his ACL when his manager spun him to the ground in an attempt to restrain him. Another sign: The crew chief of that umpiring crew that angered Bradley was an old friend of the Cubs, Bruce Froemming, he who has been screwing the Cubs for 35 years and is retiring after this year. You see, ever since he became an umpire in 1972, he has been making life hell for the Cubs. He ruined Milt Pappas’ perfect game that year. Pappas had retired the first 26 batters, and had a 2-2 count on the 27th hitter. The next 2 pitches were extremely close, but Bruce called them both balls, ruining the perfect game. Ever since then, he has always made sure to make calls to screw the Cubs. Seeing him screw someone else, that is a sign.

I take all these events as a sign that the external forces are weakening and this is the year it’s gonna happen. Next year is here!! Go, Cubs, Go

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BuckeyeCub — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:16:24 +0000

ESPN stands for East coaSt PuNks. The description on my idiot box of SportsCenter states the following: An Emmy-winning daily scrapbook of homers, slam dunks, and touchdowns. I think it’s more like this (in no particular order):

Baseball: Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Jeter, A-Rod, Papi, Manny, Beltran

Football: T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., Patriots, Brady, Belichick, G-Men, Tiki, Strahan, Jets, Pennington, Philly, McNabb, Vick, Big Ben, T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O., T.O. The ought to just play the dam the TO song

Basketball: Knicks, Sixers, Iverson, Shaq, Wade, Kobe, LeBron, Melo, Carter, Duncan, KG, state of the Knicks, T-Mac

College Basketball: Duke, UNC. Nothing else

College Football: Florida State, Thug U, Notre Dame, USC, Texas, SEC. They don’t even discuss Michigan-OSU. It’s only America’s # 1 rivalry

Why can’t they cover the Cubs, Bulls, Bears, and Buckeyes more??

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Why the Cubs will win it all

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