This could have been the worst game of the season. Good timing guys. The pitching; terrible, hitting; terrible, motivation; terrible. They were flat, flat, flat, FLAT, FLAT!!!
This loss makes an official seven playoff game losing streak going back to 2003 where the Cubs, up 3 games to 1, lost the next three games in a row. Then last year the Cubs were swept by the Diamondbacks, and now they start off this year's playoffs with a loss at home. Which by the way is now a four game home playoff losing streak.
Why is Mr. Next Century Is Here talking so negatively? Because I'm pissed-off. When are the Chicago Cubs going to come to a big game and...I don't know...SHOW UP! This was an absolute travesty.
Dempster walked seven! SEVEN! The Dodger's pitcher got a free pass...TWICE! How in the world do you expect to win when you do this?
Here's where I start crying in my soup, but you know what...f--- it. I have been trying all year now to be positive and down play this voodoo b.s. and you know what, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this team is cursed. Maybe for some unknown reason this team is just not destined to be World Champs. They have to be, even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. If that is the case, someone please tell me how to get off this ride. I'm 47 years old and I have been a fan since I was 10. Every year watching other teams reach the brass ring. Watching other fans going absolutely crazy with joy over their team going all the way. Then year after year seeing highlights of past champions and the joy of their victory.
Pat Hughes, the radio announcer for the Cubs, told the story of a man he bumped into after the loss against the Diamondbacks. The Cubs had just been swept three games to none and their season was over for the 99th year without being champions. The man was in his mid-fifties. He looked up at Pat and with pain in his voice asked..."what did we Cub fans do to deserve this?" Pat said he had no answer.
Why am I going so crazy after just one game? Of the last 28 NLDS playoff series the team that has won the first game has won the series 24 times. The Dodgers went 17-8 in September, the Cubs were just 12-12. We just blew our wad with our best pitcher of the year and the result was a loss. Now Big Z is pitching tomorrow and I don't know which Zambrano will show up. The bats? Only God knows if they will show up. Looking at the rest of this series in a logically way, I don't feel good about it. The Cubs needed to come out strong and make a statement. Well they made a statement but I'm afraid it was different year...same results.
I'm sorry but the Chicago Cubs fans are some of the greatest in the world, and they have stood behind a team that for 100 years has FAILED. Now it is the players turn to come out, defy the odds, curses, hoodoo, voodoo, black magic, black cats and all the other crap and give back to all of those fans for the past 100 years. How, show-up, earn their millions. The millions that come from the money the fans have spent for the last 100 years.
Being a Cub fan is...exhausting.
