World Series Update
When it comes to baseball, I’m a Cubs fan through and through. I nearly had a hernia when the debacle took place in 2003 as they dropped three in a row to the Marlins to lose the series. So when it comes to this year’s World Series, I am rooting against the White Sox. Just because all the sad memories will be revisited as the jokes come out about how at least one Chicago team can win.
But it doesn’t seem like it’s going to make a difference. The series is early but it does look as though the Sox can’t be beat. The Astros don’t have the offensive power, Bagwell and Biggio are aged while Berkman, Lamb, and Lane aren’t stepping up to the plate (that was a terrible pun; for Ward’s sake). Meanwhile the White Sox can’t seem to do anything wrong. Their pitching is stellar, both starting and relief, and guys who didn’t hit any HR’s during the regular season are hitting walk-offs in the World Series.
As a Cub fan however, I sit back and try to be optimistic, as we always are. The Red Sox won last year to quench their drought and now the White Sox are in the position to end their famine of faux pas. Maybe next year will be the year the Cubs do the same so the cycle can reset and the teams can have another 50 plus years to look forward to being upset come October.
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