My sincere condolences to the Chicago Cubs and their fans on losing the National League Division Series. I know there’s a lot of depression right now, but there is some good news, thanks to Lou Piniella’s forward-thinking strategy:
Carlos Zambrano is fully rested and ready for his start on Sunday.
Blame the hitters not Lou or the pitchers; the big bats just were not there.
Mister Ed — I agree with you. The Cubs had multiple opportunities (especially Ramirez), and they just couldn’t get the clutch hits. That was surprising to me because this year more than any other the Cubs had been getting clutch hits in the regular season. I would have liked to see them win at least one game at home for the fans’ sake. It’s miserable when your team loses at home. I know some will think I’m being patronizing, but I know it really stunk when the Cards got swept in 2004 with the final game being in St. Louis. So I do sincerely sympathize with Cubs fans tonight.
Someone tripped the off switch after the Cinncinati series on both pitching and hitting. The goat curse lives on but wait until next year. That’ll be the one.
Please, enough about silly curses. It is about how well the Cub players and manager performed and not about some yammering and nonsense over curses. Please Chicago media stop this curse talk. It will not win one game for the Cubs; it will only confuse the minds of the mentally lame.
Gotta hate to love ’em! Though they cause me so much pain every time. I agree, though, that Lou’s got a good plan in place, and defense is looking great-back to the fundamentals-always seems to be a need for my beloved Cubbies. Now, if we could afford some consistent, injury-free pitching, and a big bat or two…so long to the goat!
See y’all next year!
Jenne,
If I remember correctly, I don’t think any Cub starters missed a whole lot of games due to injury.
I’m predicting right now the Cubs don’t make the playoffs next year. This team is way too dumb at the plate, and I don’t really think that can be corrected during the offseason.