I feel 100 times more at home at US Cellular

steve wrote:I actually thought it was a joke when Rob mentioned it. Ha! Spending too much on an over-rated-and-unproductive short-term replacement for Derrek Lee!

oucheh wrote:Today a new era begins Cubs fans

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

Possum Hiss wrote:The Cubs are an underachieving big-market team, but come on, they're not the Royals or the Devil Rays.

Actually, this is an argument against the Cubs. The Cubs have much more money at their disposal, yet they currently field a team that features Juan Pierre, Jacque Jones and Tony Womack.

Let me repeat: the Cubs, a big market team that will draw more than three million people this year, currently field a team that features Juan Pierre, Jacque Jones and Tony Womack.

If the White Sox pulled this shit, then I'd be tempted to drive a gas tanker into Gate 4 at 35th and Shields.

But the alleged points of comparison are the Royals and Devil Rays (or, as they like to be called these days, the "Rays"). Well, the Royals are a small market team (with, mind you, the smallest TV market) -- and they have a despicable owner who is content to suck from the MLB revenue-sharing teat. The Rays have little going for them (other than the recent ownership change and a collection of nice young talent with which you are likely unfamiliar). The Cubs, on the other hand, have the unquestioned resources to field a team every year that could compete along the lines of the Cardinals, Red Sox, Angels, Astros or Giants -- maybe even the Yankees. The Cubs are just too dumb and hold their beers-in-the-sun fan base in too much contempt to bother doing so.

Jesus, what Billy Beane, Mark Shapiro, Terry Ryan or even Doug Melvin could do with those Cubs resources.

Cubs fans, you are complete suckers. If your favorite band kept releasing shitty record after shitty record, and kept playing lame-o show after lame-o show, you would lose interest and walk away -- even if every show cost $30-40, took place in a sun-soaked setting with overpriced beer, and was televised on a WB "superstation". Maybe the world thinks of you as "loyal" fans, but the fact that you lemmings keep jumping into the stands to show your "support" for this inept concern strikes me as identifying you as nothing more than indiscriminate consumers.

I mean, you still show up and root root root for the home team.

It's a shame.

The Cubs are like a rich, lazy and stupid college classmate who never lifts a finger, skips all of his classes, buys his term papers, and skates by with D grades (if he hasn't completely failed out altogether) -- yet every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, this guy is in the champagne room snorting high-grade blow off of the glistening bare asses of multiple hot young coeds.

Do you honestly like this guy?

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote: