What is there to say?
1984 was the year 1989 was the year, 1998 was the year, 2003 was the year, 2007 was the year. But wasn’t 2008 really THE year? The Cubs were far and away the best team in the National League over the course of the regular season. But that’s just it. The regular season. For the second straight year, the Cubs looked like minor leaguers during the playoffs. Their 9 game playoff losing streak has got to have fans wondering if their year will ever come. Mark DeRosa, Jim Edmonds, Derrek Lee, Carlos Zambrano, and Rich Harden showed up. They were ready. Alfonso Soriano and Aramis Ramirez were no where to be found. The starting pitching did their job for the most part. The bats couldn’t buy a hit with men in scoring position. It was the 2007 NLDS all over again. Soriano who managed but one hit in the entire 3 game span, told Cub fans after the game to “be patient.” You’re kidding right, Alfonso? Cubs fans have “been patient” for 100 years now, and you know we’ll all be back next year.
Sounds pretty damn patient to me.
Mike
DeRosa showed up, sure — inlcuding an iron glove to break our hearts with a terrible error in game two. That moment was the end of the season.
You Cubs fans can sing the little ditty below to the tune of the Kingston Trio’s “500 Miles.”
If you miss the games we’ve played, you will know that we have lost, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred years.
A hundred years, a hundred years, a hundred years, a hundred years, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred years.
Lord, I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four, Lord I’m five hundred years from a series win.
Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home, Lord, we can’t win a game away from home.
Not a bat in my bag, not a glove on my hand. Lord, we can’t go back home this-a-way.
This-a-way, this-a-way, this-a-away, this-a-way, Lord, we can’t go back home this-a-way.
If you miss the games we’ve played, you will know that we have lost, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred years.
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred years.
Yes, we’ll be back next year, but for now we will grieve and hopefully move on. I don’t think it matters how long you’ve waited for the Cubs to show up in post season…every Cub fan is left wondering again on what happened. It was difficult to watch each game and even more painful to see the replays and Lou this morning. Another 100 years…we won’t be here for that! I am so sad for Ron Santo who really believed this was the year. All the cliches have been run into the ground. The whole team failed and I can say that because they actually played like a team in regular season. I just can’t believe any more.
To Rick Beato:
DeRosa also accounted for 4 of the total 6 RBIs we managed the entire series. The DP ball should have been made, but he was one of the few guys that showed up, face it.
Well said Mike. The offense clearly didn’t show up the entire series. DeRosa was the only hitter to actually do something in the series.
The *big* bats of Soriano, Lee, and Ramirez didn’t do jack for the most part. At least Lee showed up in game three, but it was too late.
I think the team felt so much pressure to be *the team* to finally do it and once they got behind and lost game one it was over for the series.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the winter meetings in a few months. What moves will Jim Hendry try to make? Will the new management be in place to allow him to make moves?
Time will only tell.
I am at a complete loss of words. This years playoff woes were inexplicable! The absolute worst baseball played by the cubs all season Hands down
You know Cubs Fans it has nothing to do with a goat or Steve Bartman or anything like that. The problem is with you the so-called loyal Cubs Fans, The Cub Army, Cub Nation, What ever you want to call yourselves.Until up people are 100% fans the same will remain, FAILURE!!! I listen to alot of Chicago Sports Talk Radio, and if the Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks, or Bears are winning, they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if they lose. You so-called best fans in the land throw them under the bus.You can praise a guy when hes doing well, but God forbid he has a bad game, or couple of games,(which happens ,they’re all human) you want his head on a stick being marched down Michigan Ave. Wake up and learn what a true fan really is, and stick with your beloved Cubs through thick and thin. Learn how to support them through good and bad. Because thats what you get in sports, ups and downs. Quit your constant bitching all the time when things don’t go your way. Its pathetic, and childish. Until you learn to, you might as well get used to the continuing failures to come. Curse of the Goat, I don’t think so, more like Curse of the Undeserving.
The problem with any team in Chicago that shows promise is the local media. They crown their “champions” before the season is half over. Remember the Bears of 2006? Get with it, second (rate) city….you cheer with trepidation. When the last out is called, then you may celebrate!