The Cubs are finally going into panic mode. Apparently they cannot patiently endure another cursed team or rival winning their own championship. Not that I blame them. If I were the Cubs and I just witnessed three years in a row of the Red Sox breaking the curse, the White Sox breaking their own 80+ years of heartache and their Central Division/83 win Cardinal rival winning the World Series, I'd kind of lose my bonkers too. So they're dishing out the big bucks but somehow I see these players getting injured or something. Just call it a hunch.
Needless to say, I really want to go to a Cards-Cubs game next year. Besides the usual banter I'll enjoy, there's the added twist of seeing them in complete misery..well...okay, I'll be honest. The pathetic misery thing just doesn't do it for me. I like to see them think they'll win, and then lose. The whole "yeah, we're pathetic and you won the WS and we're gonna go cry in our corner and maybe buy a hotdog on the way over" look takes the fun out of the banter. But if the Cubs fans are as predictable as I think they are, they'll think next year is their year. They'll believe that this new team is unlike any other they've had before and coupled with the belief that everyone who deserves a win is getting their turn, they'll be excited. As one Milwaukee Brewer fan pointed out:
"...they have a superiority complex with nothing to back it up given that they haven’t been in a World Series since Harry Truman was in the White House".
Those are the Cub fans I want to point and laugh at next year.On to more important things, pitching is something the Cardinals are obviously looking for. I like that they made sure to tie up Carpenter. Geez louise these sub-par pitchers are getting a freak load of cash. I would like Suppan to sign with us because he's been, at times, our best pitcher in the post-season. But as luck would have it, that is also part of the reason teams with the moolah are gonna throw it at him and probably steal him away. (Damn those money mongering fools!) And then Tony and Dunc will have to find some cast-away repair project and think they can fix him. They've done it before but I've got to say, projects frustrate me. For once, can we have a pitching staff that doesn't need to be "fixed" during the season, like they're a bunch of those kids from "Dangerous Minds". Okay, that was me unnecessarily complaining, but I've got to make you believe that things aren't always peachy keen with my opinion of Cardinal logic. But seriously, last year I had a coronary heart attack and I'm not just saying that because I watch Grey's Anatomy or ER. The 83 win season gave me a reason to jump off a bridge. If it weren't for my general ability to recognize that jumping off bridges is bad, very bad, I probably would have done so.
But, as I've said every time I feel down, "At least we won the World Series". That's been my attitude this winter as ice/snow storms attacked my city, every time the Rams and Blues lose and whenever something that usually ticks me off occurs now. Heck, I even bought an Asian inspired noodle packet from Walgreen's yesterday and found out the soy packet that is vital to the essential reason I like the taste of this meal was missing from my noodle container. Now, this would usually give me a hunkering to attack the Walgreen's I bought it from. Perhaps I might've thrown the tasteless disarray of noodles at the "pharmacy America Trusts" (they lose the soy, they lose my trust), but on this occassion I realized that winning the World Series made a bad situation go from "DAMN THEM ALL! They're gettin' a bland noodle drive by!" to "DAMNIT! okay, on to plan B". So thank you Cardinals.
