what's comforting is that cubs fans now get a glimpse into life being a saints fan.

it's not funny, it's not fun.

since the 1984 playoff choke, the Cubs home playoff record is 3-9. I'd like to know any team with more than 4 home playoff games with a worse home playoff record than that in the past 25 years.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

This team IS cursed. I don't mean some fantastical metaphysical, tourist trap contrivance centered around a goat.

I mean they are cursed by the fact that no group of half-ass, late-night partying, over-the-hill drunken dumbasses have even lucked their way into a championship in 100 years. I mean every other stinking franchise in America and one in Canada at least got lucky one year and stumbled into something.

So, that leaves this franchise, paralyzed by a set of circumstances that no player's psyche seems capable of handling. There is no other explanation for continual failure to show up in the playoffs by different sets of guys in different years against substandard competition. Grace is about the only player who ever has shown up in the playoffs. Everybody else sucks. Last night's game was an embarrassment and that dumbass on the M&H show blaming Cubs fans can blow me. That game sucked. They've won one freakin' series in 100 years. They have a right to sit on their hands until those sleepwalkers give them a reason to slap those hands together. I didn't see it last night.

If they don't win the World Series this year, I might be done with this franchise. I'm not even sure winning a World Series is worth this at this point. Watching 35 years of mind-numbing games like last night, year after year playing playoff games with your eyes staring directly into the headlights and having to watch the whole funeral play out is getting to be a bit much.

It's like the MLB version of Fear Factor. Sure, those dim bulbs won $50,000. But they had to eat a cow uterus. Was the $50k really worth vomiting up a cow uterus?

what's comforting is that cubs fans now get a glimpse into life being a saints fan.

it's not funny, it's not fun.

I'll say one positive thing to try to counter all the negative about the Cubs that I've been preaching since I joined in June...things always could be worse. We could be White Sox fans. That is all.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

2005: White Sox, which meant that the Cubs would forever lose all “bragging” rights.

Yeah, I mean who wouldn't want to end thier streak of no WS titles, and then win a play-in game at home to get back into the playoffs a few years later

The Cubs have eternal bragging rights because they may be the loveable pathetic losers, but they are the Yankees of loveable, pathetic losers. Hard to deal with if you're a Sox fan, but it's reality.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I didn't say I would mind the level of success the Sox have had. What I said was "things could be worse...we could be White Sox fans." For a Cubs fan, that is all that needs be said. I'm sure you wouldn't understand. No matter how bad things get, we take confidence that we will never sink low enough to be a fan of the White Sox instead of the Cubs.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I didn't say I would mind the level of success the Sox have had. What I said was "things could be worse...we could be White Sox fans." For a Cubs fan, that is all that needs be said. I'm sure you wouldn't understand. No matter how bad things get, we take confidence that we will never sink low enough to be a fan of the White Sox instead of the Cubs.

working an hourly wage makes you a Sox fan.

The Saints have never even been to the Superbowl. The Cubs *have* won league championships and been in and won the World Series. Apples and oranges, my friend.

Which is why I said a "glimpse". Do you know of any Cubs fans that remember those championships by the way? Or were alive? While it is a part of the history, it's LONG history...and I'm gauging fandom, not necessarily the history of the clubs; obviously I couldn't do that since the Saints are an expansion franchise. As far as knowing suffering, Cubs and Saints fans have something in common.

This team IS cursed. I don't mean some fantastical metaphysical, tourist trap contrivance centered around a goat.

I mean they are cursed by the fact that no group of half-ass, late-night partying, over-the-hill drunken dumbasses have even lucked their way into a championship in 100 years. I mean every other stinking franchise in America and one in Canada at least got lucky one year and stumbled into something.

So, that leaves this franchise, paralyzed by a set of circumstances that no player's psyche seems capable of handling. There is no other explanation for continual failure to show up in the playoffs by different sets of guys in different years against substandard competition. Grace is about the only player who ever has shown up in the playoffs. Everybody else sucks. Last night's game was an embarrassment and that dumbass on the M&H show blaming Cubs fans can blow me. That game sucked. They've won one freakin' series in 100 years. They have a right to sit on their hands until those sleepwalkers give them a reason to slap those hands together. I didn't see it last night.

If they don't win the World Series this year, I might be done with this franchise. I'm not even sure winning a World Series is worth this at this point. Watching 35 years of mind-numbing games like last night, year after year playing playoff games with your eyes staring directly into the headlights and having to watch the whole funeral play out is getting to be a bit much.

It's like the MLB version of Fear Factor. Sure, those dim bulbs won $50,000. But they had to eat a cow uterus. Was the $50k really worth vomiting up a cow uterus?