Living and breathing in the Second City
I can’t think of anything to say to make it better. A woman called in to Mully and Hanley and began crying. And while I could see the absurdity of it all, I couldn’t help feeling a few tears well up some behind my eye-sockets.
Maybe we just want it to bad. Look at Manny, he doesn’t care one way or the other … so he plays like a beast. I don’t know.
The one thing I was certain of coming into the series is that if the Cubs were beat, they wouldn’t go down easily. I was dead wrong.
Of course, they still have a chance. The pressure at Wrigley may be too great to win there and may a couple days in LA will lift the chain from around their necks. But maybe not. Maybe they are victims of their own expectations and of ours.
In the end, there is just no explanation …
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
-Carl Sandburg
Patrick
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I was pretty sure that either they would dominate, or be dominated. There would be no bunch-of-close-games drama to it. It seems to me that they regularly played like crap after a layoff, and this was worsened by the fact that they were playing their second and third string the last few days of the regular season. The big guns have failed us, and unless they switch it on with some road cooking, it’ll be a long lonely offseason of the usual winter “what if” for us Cubs fans.
DGM
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Mike, there is an explanation, THEY HAVE BEEN OUTPLAYED IN EVERY ASPECT OF THE GAME!!!
I just listened to Steve Stone on the Score during a lunch break, and he nailed it on the head with regard to Piniella. Namely, Piniella has been with the Cubs organization 2 years now…he still “doesn’t get it,” with regard to the passion and hand wringing that Cub fans go through EVERY season. He sounded ridiculously trite in his post game when he stated “There are bigger problems in the world then what the Cubs are doing…” NO SHIT LOU! But as Stone noted correctly, baseball is a DIVERSION…its entertainment FROM the problems of the world.
Lou’s flippant attitude about losing 2 games…AT HOME NO LESS, further cements my contempt for him right now. As well as sticking with Fukudome (who he benched for what? the last 2 months of the season?!) as a starter…and Lee. WHY Hoffpaiur was not on post season roster after killing the ball in AAA, AND when he played in last weeks of season after being called up is a slap in the face to the fans. Torre sat Pierre & Kent despite both being veterans like Lee, because their replacements were HOT. Torre…a winning manager…played the HOT hand. Piniella, stuck with a veteran in Lee, who led the NL in double play balls all season.
I like Harden’s chances tomorrow…but I don’t expect the Cubs to come back for a game 5.
Qui
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I still have hope. Go Cubbies!