Today's View From the Unemployment Line: 'Wait Til Next Year' Edition
Once again, it's "Wait Til Next Year!" The Lakeview Baseball Club will up the number next year to 016097. One year since the last division title; 60 since the last Pennant; 97 since the last time the Cubs took a champagne shower in the locker room after the last game of the season.
Expectations were high this year after the Cubs came within a foul ball of making it to the World Series, only to be struck again by that danged curse! Bolstering last season's line up, the Cubs acquired Derrick Lee, Nomar, and the crown jewel, one-time Cub Greg Maddux. The pitching rotation sounded like an All-Star staff: Wood, Prior, Maddux, Clement, Zambrano. Bartman had reportedly moved to Florida. The curse was expected to yield.
But it didn't. The Cubs will be watching the playoffs this October from the high definition entertainment rooms of their palatial mansions. Instead of spending hours on end outdoors in frigid Chicago for the single purpose of bringing home a shiny piece of bronze, the Cubs will be comfortable on their leather couches, sipping Courvosier, eating foie gras (unless they live in California) and watching the Yankees and Red Sox, or Braves and Cardinals fight (and freeze) it out on their large plasma TV's with surround sound (it'll almost be like they're really there!).
But that's the Cubs' way. Why do this year what they can wait til next year to do?
Expectations were high this year after the Cubs came within a foul ball of making it to the World Series, only to be struck again by that danged curse! Bolstering last season's line up, the Cubs acquired Derrick Lee, Nomar, and the crown jewel, one-time Cub Greg Maddux. The pitching rotation sounded like an All-Star staff: Wood, Prior, Maddux, Clement, Zambrano. Bartman had reportedly moved to Florida. The curse was expected to yield.
But it didn't. The Cubs will be watching the playoffs this October from the high definition entertainment rooms of their palatial mansions. Instead of spending hours on end outdoors in frigid Chicago for the single purpose of bringing home a shiny piece of bronze, the Cubs will be comfortable on their leather couches, sipping Courvosier, eating foie gras (unless they live in California) and watching the Yankees and Red Sox, or Braves and Cardinals fight (and freeze) it out on their large plasma TV's with surround sound (it'll almost be like they're really there!).
But that's the Cubs' way. Why do this year what they can wait til next year to do?
posted by Mike C | 3:07 PM
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