The Chicago Cubs are most inevitably characterized as completely useless by September, because they haven't won a World Series in 100 years and they haven't even been to a World Series since 1945. Meanwhile all Chicago Cubs fans are hopeful for this season to end with a championship, most other people say that the curse is just too strong.
I personally think that the Cubs have a great shot at winning the World Series this year.
They have the best record in baseball and they were the first team to reach 80 wins on the season. The Cubs have, in my opinion the best starting rotation in baseball and they have led the league in Strikeouts now eight years in a row.
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The team is starting to gel, as they say and they are getting better and better as the days go on. They are currently on pace to win at least 100 games on the season. With the talent the Cubs have, you would be crazy to even doubt the possibilities. The Cubs have a lot of talent, with Alfonso Soriano, Aramis Ramirez, Derrick Lee, Geovany Soto, Ryan Theriot, and Kosuke Fukudome.
They currently have two rookies in line to have a big shot at winning the National League Rookie of the Year honor in Kosuke Fukudome and major favorite to win, Geovany Soto.
Ryan Theriot is in the top 5 in the National League in batting average with most recently having a .316 average.
The Chicago Cubs are a force to be dealt with in Major League Baseball and they are going to show every team in baseball that they are for real. I believe that they will come through for the most pathetic group of people on this earth, aka: Chicago Cubs fans. They love a team so much that has never loved them back.
They flirt with destiny and can never fully achieve it, but this my friends is the year that they finally show you love.
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2 months ago
Well I would say good article, Cody, except I don't appreciate being called "pathetic." Listen, while it's true the team hasn't won much, it's still baseball, number one, which is a great sport to watch. And we have the most beautiful ballpark in the world. So it's not as if we're not getting anything in return for being fans. And anyway, you really can't help who you root for, it's something ingrained in you by your father maybe, an uncle perhaps or whatever. If you can change allegiances that easily, then you're probably not that big a fan anyway. "Deprived", maybe. "Frustrated", definately. But pathetic is the wrong choice of words. It will be that much sweeter when it finally does happen.
from 2 months ago
Oh sir, I beg to differ. I am a huge Cubs fan. If you want you could fly over here to Des Moines and look at my room or life pictures for that matter. Pathetic is a word I referred to from the movie Fever Pitch. We are pathetic because we love something that never loves us back and everyone always talks about at least once in their life, saying wow if they dont win this year I am jumping ship. But year in and year out we keep coming back and hoping that they will eventually love us too. It wasn't an insult just a reference. I love the Cubs. I bleed Cubbie Blue for that matter.
from 2 months ago
Fever Pitch was an unmitigated disaster of a movie... the Farrelly brothers owe me 6.50. Too many outdated and incorrect stereotypes to count... such as the "woe is me" complex and the "we think we we're cursed by Babe Ruth" garbage (for the record, the Yawkeys caused the "curse" by shelling out enough to contend most of the time but by focusing incessantly on overrated and past-their-prime veterans instead of young players, and later, Yawkey's wife was so fricken cheap after Tom's death that they coudn't get the necessary talent together to take it all the way, with the exception of '86 which, for the record, was Schiraldi/Stanley's fault much more than it was Buckner's, if it was his at all.) Sorry for the bosox fan rant that came 4 years too late and good article but "Fever Pitch" pisses the hell outta me. The Cubs have a solid shot this year but I think Tampa and LAA are better.
2 months ago
Great piece of work. I'm falling for the Cubbies myself.
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