Curse, shmurse!
There is much pining now among baseball fans hoping that the Chicago Cubs would finally have a championship after 100 years of disappointing history during the past few days.
In fact, the pining has been so loud and long that the Cubs were under some sort of "curse" that some may actually believe that preposterous nonsense.
I know that many baseball players and fans alike are superstitious, but let me make one thing crystal clear...
The Cubs were NOT cursed.
They were simply beaten by a Los Angeles Dodgers team that just plain, flat outplayed them in three consecutive games.
This is not unlike something that might happen during the regular season...even during the Cubs' superlative 2008 season, where they posted the best record in the National League.
At some point, regardless of how good you are, you DO lose to somebody. It so happens that in the case of this year's Cubs, they were outplayed by a team playing better baseball RIGHT NOW.
And it doesn't matter what you did this year, or last year, or ten or twenty or fifty or even a hundred years ago...the teams that win in the postseason are the ones that are playing best at that time. Period. No excuses.
Will the Dodgers go on to the World Series and the championship of baseball? If they're playing the best on the days that issue is being decided, they just might! If they're not, they likely won't.
No one knows who is going on to win it all, whether it's the Dodgers or the Philadelphia Phillies or the Tampa Bay Rays or even the defending champion Boston Red Sox.
We know this, though...it won't be the Cubs...they were simply not good enough this year.
But they're NOT cursed!
Posted on Oct 06, 2008 - 10:48 PM | [2]
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Go Dodgers!!!
