It's the most wonderful time of the year
Okay, sure, maybe Day 1 pretty much sucked: the Red Sox won, the Phillies won, and worst of all, the Dodgers won. The latter outcome put certainly a small dent in the Cubs' chance for their first World Series appearance in 63 years. (Yes, to put it in perspective, the last time the Cubs went to the World Series, both V-E and V-J day occurred during the Major League season.) Due largely to the fact that most of their games were a) played in the afternoon and b) televised on national network WGN, I grew up watching the Cubs, and I've always rooted for them. This is the best team I've ever seen them have and they sure as hell better make the Series - no other National League team is really deserving, except possibly the Phillies, but, well, phuck the Phillies. But certainly not the Trolley Dodgers or the Brew Crew.
My optimal World Series would pit the Cubs versus the Rays. Not just because I live in Tampa and have of late come around to the Rays bandwagon (though that's a large part of it), but also because if the Red Sox go, I'm out ten bucks. I can handle the Angels going, as an erstwhile Orange Countian. The White Sox would be simply unacceptable.
Hopefully today, Day 2, will be better. It starts with the Rays against the White Sox at 2:30. As documented earlier, I'll be there.
Later this week, ESPN visits Nashville for the first time ever for College GameDay, to see the Commodores take on the Auburn Tigers, who hopefully won't suddenly discover how to score. Then, it's the Redskins taking on the Eagles, who, as I put it over on Jeff's blog, may not have a monopoly on asshole fans, but they definitely own Boardwalk, Park Place, and all the railroads.
Just try and tell me the title of this post isn't accurate.
"This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never"
- TV on the Radio, DLZ
My optimal World Series would pit the Cubs versus the Rays. Not just because I live in Tampa and have of late come around to the Rays bandwagon (though that's a large part of it), but also because if the Red Sox go, I'm out ten bucks. I can handle the Angels going, as an erstwhile Orange Countian. The White Sox would be simply unacceptable.
Hopefully today, Day 2, will be better. It starts with the Rays against the White Sox at 2:30. As documented earlier, I'll be there.
Later this week, ESPN visits Nashville for the first time ever for College GameDay, to see the Commodores take on the Auburn Tigers, who hopefully won't suddenly discover how to score. Then, it's the Redskins taking on the Eagles, who, as I put it over on Jeff's blog, may not have a monopoly on asshole fans, but they definitely own Boardwalk, Park Place, and all the railroads.
Just try and tell me the title of this post isn't accurate.
"This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never"
- TV on the Radio, DLZ
7 Comments:
It's good, yes, but I'll take the opening week of baseball/NCAA tournament/critical basketball & hockey games time of year. This is a close second.
Also, I'm rooting hard for a brutal Cubs exit from the playoffs. Right now in the baseball world they're one of the critically important good guys, but they'll cease to be that if they win the Series. The last thing we need is another team like the Red Sox/Yankees.
If football weren't infinitely superior to basketball and hockey in every way, shape and form, I could agree with you. But it is, and basketball and hockey suck, so there ya go.
And hey, the Cubs have done their time. 100 years, to be exact. I'm ready to let them win one. Let the Rays continue to be one of baseball's "critically important good guys".
Nah, it took the Cubs 50 years of losing before they really became the good guys; you can't just erase our only remaining curse. They take far too long to build up.
Fair point. Though I think the Cubs have gone from lovable losers to just plain losers over the past two days. You can't just be the best team in the NL and then turn around and lose two straight playoff games to the Dodgers - the Dodgers, for God's sake - in utterly miserable fashion, curse or not.
I take solace in reminding myself that the Red Sox had to go down by three games and then (I still contend) required an inexplicable karate chop from Alex Rodriguez to finally fire them up to come back. So maybe Manny will do something similarly assholish to get the Cubs back into it. But maybe you're right, Matt: maybe we need to cling to our last remaining baseball curse.
At least until the Pirates and/or Padres are at that level.
Or the way they've been going, I suppose the Mets...
It's hard to imagine ever liking the Mets.
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