cheeses_h_rice
09-26-2003, 01:55 PM
Get your barf bags out for this one, folks.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/972058.asp?0cv=CB20
Some choice quotes:
IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, just a choice between two story lines. One is a nice story about a good team with a great bullpen. The other holds the potential of being the story of the century about one of sports’ greatest losers having a rare shot at killing a century’s worth of ghosts and demons.
So let me get this straight: every single time this lousy Flubs team is in the hunt it's the "story of the century"?
Still, Houston might have had a chance at latching onto a corner of my sympathy if it had been able to hang onto the lead it once had over the Cubs in the NL Central race.
Houston had its chance over the past two weeks to hold a lead. Instead, they let the Cubs overtake them.
I get it: so when Houston "blows" a 1-game lead, you have to root for the Flubs.
What happens when the Flubs blow a 1-game lead like they did last night? Can we now root for the Astros, given your logic?
And you can’t ignore the Boston factor in all this. If the Red Sox are going to be in the playoffs, you absolutely want the Cubs there, too.
Give us a Chicago-Boston World Series and half the baseball writers in the country might just as well retire immediately after — or transfer to the hockey beat, which may be the same thing — because they’ll never have a story that great to write again.
At some point, the Astros might extend their own record of non-performance long enough to make them a compelling story in its own right. Forty-one years is a decent stretch of losing, but it’s 14 years shy of Cleveland’s and not even half as long as the Cubs’.
Translation: the White Sox don't exist.
It has been a great season, Houston, and the last few games should be chock-full of excitement. But do the game and the fans a favor and let the Cubs win.
"Do the game a favor"?
:chunks
http://www.msnbc.com/news/972058.asp?0cv=CB20
Some choice quotes:
IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, just a choice between two story lines. One is a nice story about a good team with a great bullpen. The other holds the potential of being the story of the century about one of sports’ greatest losers having a rare shot at killing a century’s worth of ghosts and demons.
So let me get this straight: every single time this lousy Flubs team is in the hunt it's the "story of the century"?
Still, Houston might have had a chance at latching onto a corner of my sympathy if it had been able to hang onto the lead it once had over the Cubs in the NL Central race.
Houston had its chance over the past two weeks to hold a lead. Instead, they let the Cubs overtake them.
I get it: so when Houston "blows" a 1-game lead, you have to root for the Flubs.
What happens when the Flubs blow a 1-game lead like they did last night? Can we now root for the Astros, given your logic?
And you can’t ignore the Boston factor in all this. If the Red Sox are going to be in the playoffs, you absolutely want the Cubs there, too.
Give us a Chicago-Boston World Series and half the baseball writers in the country might just as well retire immediately after — or transfer to the hockey beat, which may be the same thing — because they’ll never have a story that great to write again.
At some point, the Astros might extend their own record of non-performance long enough to make them a compelling story in its own right. Forty-one years is a decent stretch of losing, but it’s 14 years shy of Cleveland’s and not even half as long as the Cubs’.
Translation: the White Sox don't exist.
It has been a great season, Houston, and the last few games should be chock-full of excitement. But do the game and the fans a favor and let the Cubs win.
"Do the game a favor"?
:chunks