I guess its perspective I have watched this story play out for over 50 years. The Cubs were an unloved joke for most of my youth. Then they made some noise in 1969 and the fairweathers came out in droves. Of course they Cubbed away a 13 game lead in August to once again fall off of everyones radar.

Then something happened. Cable TV. WGN was nation wide and the Cubs were on it every day all summer long getting them a national following. They still sucked and cubbed away every chance at greatness. The loveable losers had arrived and the whole country rooted for the underdog as they always found a way to blow a sure thing. This might be the best team of all and it will be interesting to see just how exactly it will implode.

"Out" was kind of a joke, in that I knew cruising was just being himself. I'm usually fine with cruising's posting, I just didn't care for the LOVE and PASSION in Big Hurt's post being met with anything other than like 90 consecutive posts or similar.

No. I'm quite sure Grearr knew who Dallas Keuchel was before he took the mound in he All Star game last year.

loled

Serious question: Obviously, winning a title would be a wild ride/epic moment, but do you feel like your fandom would lose anything once deprived of the identity of the 100+ years storyline? I feel like, reading SOSH and Gammons and Simmons and a bunch of other boston baseball sources, their fan experience absolutely lost something after '04.

Edit to add: I'm not saying Cubs fans shouldn't hope for the win. Just curious for their perspective on what comes after.

I interpreted it as Easy was taking the newspaper to Cruising and shooing him out the door for pissing on the carpet

No offense to Cruising

Maybe Dr. Andrews is doing liposuction nowadays.

This would imply that he's housebroken.

Depends on the fan. Some casuals would become more interested, some would drop off. Hardcores wouldn't change.
I'm relatively young, don't think it would change mine since I haven't known the multi decade heartbreak

So THIS is what the Red Sox were doing wrong...

http://deadspin.com/report-the-giant...blo-1771213613

What a pathetic human being he is. Such a ****ing assclown.

Eating disorder, bro

I gotta hope you didn't read the article if you still want to call him pathetic

Eating Disorder Confirmed.

He's a major league athlete surrounded by and visiting doctors constantly. He has never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, and we have seen him be in shape. He doesn't get benefit of the doubt here. If a doctor wants to come out and say he has a diagnosed eating disorder then so be it.

That is amazing. "This is Bruce Bochy. Can you make that Room 350 and Pablo are not able to order any room service? Thanks"

On a related note, I would like to say I'm happy the Cubs committed five errors today.

This is ridiculous on several levels. Did you read the article? Do you understand how many calories he has to be eating? Diagnosed or not, which, how could you know it's not, it's obviously a struggle and he's obviously not just lazy or something.

Can you imagine it being pleasurable to eat as much as he must be eating? I can't. Beyond just the physical aspect, he's acting exactly like a heroin addict but with food. Sneaking it, when he apparently consented to people putting in preventive measures. He also knows how bad he looks and how he's the butt of infinite jokes.

He clearly has a problem.

"Surrounded by and visiting doctors constantly" is also basically the opposite for like 27 or 28 teams. Ask kyleb what health, fitness and nutrition is like at the MLB level. He might see orthopesists and that's it.

When he had people planning and cooking his meals, that was when he was thinner. He doesn't have that support from his current team.

there's definitely something poetic about hope springs eternal, and I appreciate that the Cubs have been in a unique category for a while. But I speak for my Cubs fan friends when I say that I think we are definitely ready to trade that in. Somewhere on earth there must be a very old Cubs fan who was born before Mother Teresa and was alive to see Einstein's general relativity and Picasso's cubism and two world wars and a man on the moon and an internet filled with internet porn but who will die this year without ever seeing the Cubs win a World Series; don't get me wrong I'm thankful for spankwire and for the contributions of Einstein but what would make it even better would be if the Cubs also came through just one ****ing time. I'll trade a diminished fantasy life for something that's real, come on dealer, ONE TIME. It's like when Morgan Freeman got released from Shawshank I'll bet the first Mexican hooker that he tenderly bent over the starboard bow was indescribable, a perfect moment, perfect because it turned out that her real-life stern was indescribably better than banging his concrete wallfleshlight through a poster of rita hayworth while listening to the moans of Boggs from across the yard. Bring on the pennant, bring on the gonorrhea, dealer I am talking to you. Would Charlie Brown have been a better or worse story if he ever connected? In this analogy the Cubs are Charlie Brown, the haters are Lucy, the ball is the Cubs' legacy, and the hideous sound that Lucy makes when he misses the ball and instead pulverizes her straight in the ribs rupturing her stupid van pelt pancreas, THAT is the sound that I will hear in my head whenever somebody tries to make me feel bad because the cubs are also popular with casuals

since the april 15th, the cubs are losing to teams by an average of 5.00 runs per game. lol cubs

LOLCubs. Also LOL at people who dislike bandwagon fans.

This is another post I like.

Some of the best people I know are Cubs fans.

Yeah we're pretty great

Time for our semi-weekly reminder that the Mets got the better of the RA Dickey trade