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By Rick Kaempfer
I was listening to WGN on the way home from the game yesterday and David Kaplan was not-so-subtly laying the blame on the Cubs fans because we got quiet after that grand slam and didn’t inspire the team to come back.
But here’s a message for Cubs players. It’s not that we’ve stopped supporting you. There are logical explanations for what you think you’re seeing and hearing.
Posted on October 2, 2008
By Tom Latourette
Cub fans, every year you feel hope
But then Cub fans, all your team does is choke
Because Cub fans, you’ve been cursed by a goat
And a fellow fan named Bartman
Cub fans, had a bad century
All the Cub fans, perpetual misery
99 years, is a very long time
Many tears shed in the Friendly Confines
Cubs beat Detroit in five in 1908
No one’s alive who saw 1908
Tinkers, Evers to Chance, part of a dynasty
Who would have thought, the last World Series we’d see
Posted on October 2, 2008
By Eric Emery
Americans are united about one thing these days: Our government stinks. Since few agree on how to make our economy better, perhaps our representation needs an easier and a less important arena to manage – the NFL. Here some of the important questions facing the NFL and answers we might receive in return from our politicians.
* Raiders owner Al Davis reportedly interviewed replacements for head coach Lane Kiffin before he actually fired him on Tuesday. Should the league interview replacements for Davis before stepping in and bailing out the franchise and selling it as a distressed asset?
* How should Republican team owners react to her future proposals after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says this: “The other 31 owners need to work together to find a solution to this problem. Together, strong cooperation results in a stronger league. It’s much like the strong cooperation within the House of Representatives, except for the eight years of Republican rule that have allowed greed to compromise the strength of America. In fact, Republicans have done more to ruin America and the NFL than Al Davis will in 242 lifetimes.”
* In the wake of the brutal helmet-to-helmet hit put on Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin last week, questions are once again being asked about player safety. Which subcommittee should the NFL send this issue to in order to most properly bury it?
Posted on October 2, 2008
By Ricky O’Donnell
As great as John Danks, Jim Thome and Brian Anderson were last night, the White Sox aren’t AL Central champs without assistant general manager Rick Hahn’s five-year-old son. When the Sox and Twins flipped a coin months ago to see which team would play at home if a play-in game was needed, Hahn’s son told his dad to call heads.
I can say with near certainty that if the kid got it wrong, the Sox wouldn’t be headed to Tampa Bay. If last night’s game were held in the Metrodome, you could bet A.J. would have dropped the ball during his collision with Michael Cuddyer at home plate, Danks would have gone down in the third inning with shoulder trouble, and Carlos Gomez would have hit for the cycle. Is there a worse building on the planet than the home baseball stadium of the Minnesota Twins? I think not.
Posted on October 1, 2008
