98 and we all still wait-a running commentary on the 2006 Chicago Cubs

2006 Chicago Cubs:

Born: April 3, 2006

Died: May 22, 2006

I'm calling it-the season is over, done, finished.  The drought goes on.  Year 99 awaits.

I haven't declared a Cubs team dead this early since 1997, which was the year of the infamous 0-14 start.  That team finished 67-95.  I think this team is worse, and will probably exceed the number of losses.

In fact, this might be a true banner year for the South Side: the White Sox will win 100 games (all but guaranteed) and the Cubs will lose 100 (I'd say the chances are 50/50).

People got excited Saturday because Michael Barret smacked AJ Pierzynski, instead of getting rightly riled up due to the fact that the Cubs looked absolutely pathetic in losing the first two games to the Sox by a combined score of 13-1.  And if Paul Konerko manages to lean a few inches to his right Sunday, the Sox would have completed a three game sweep.

Damn you, Paulie.  A sweep would have been a gift sent from Heaven.

As it turns out, the Cubs managed to piss away any and all momentum from yesterday's win tonight in Miami, losing to the Marlins 9-1.  That's 18 losses in the last 23 games for the Cubs, most of them in the fashion of tonight's game: over early.  By the way, the Marlins ended an 8 game losing streak tonight.

Again, it needs to be said: the Cubs are the worst team in baseball, by miles.  Yes, even you, Kansas City, you have a better baseball team.

I was hoping for the Sox to obliterate the Cubs yesterday, I freely admit.  That's the only way ANYTHING is going to change in the front office.  How can they continue to believe that Dusty Baker is the right man to lead this club?  His team is no longer competitive three out of every four games.  Think I'm exaggerating?  Watch the last four games the Cubs have played.  Sunday was the only game they were remotely in, and they won solely because the Sox gift-wrapped the eighth inning for them.

Here's another example of the excuse-making that proliferates the Cubs organization, a classic characteristic of their "Who Me?" leader, Dusty Baker.  After tonight's game, Juan Pierre blamed the Cubs' performance on the "lack of energy" in the stadium, because less than 10,000 fans showed up tonight in South Florida.

Can you believe that?  A professional team blaming their crappy performance on a low turnout, IN AN OPPOSING TEAMS STADIUM?

It's over.  Call me a pessimist if you wish.  I don't care.  The Cubs are done.  Let the lemmings continue to fill Wrigley Field with tickets they bought in February because they just had to be there.  You are all enablers.  If you're lucky, you'll keep track of the great sell-off that occurs at the trading deadline, and you'll be dumb enough to believe the higher-ups when they claim that the salaries they dumped put them in a position to make real runs at quality free agents in the off-season.

Oh, and by the way, to all the Sox fans who have said over and over again that it is pathetic that Cubs fans are happy because they're team managed to win one of the games this past weekend, I leave you with this:

Kiss my ass.  Why you all continue to obsess on the Cubs amazes me.  You might want to worry about Detroit a bit.  Just a suggestion.

Fire Dusty Baker.

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