Cubs beat writer rips the Cubs & Cub fans...

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The Cubs' dreams again have been soaked.
By Paul Sullivan
SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH
10/31/2006

....Worst team in the Central Division. Worst team in the National
League. Worst season in recent memory for most Cubs fans...

After being kicked in the gut last year when the crosstown White Sox
won it all, Cubs fans were doubled over in pain last Friday the moment
Adam Wainwright struck out Brandon Inge to seal the deal. There
probably are are worse things than watching the Sox and Cardinals win
in back-to-back years - like spending some quality time with Rosie
O'Donnell, or eating a spinach salad laced with e-coli - but I can't
think of anything else.

Now that the Cardinals have had their parade, it's time for Cubs fans
to come to grips with the fact that rooting for their heroes with the
knowledge that they will never win is a disease, like alcoholism, and
the afflicted parties must understand they are suffering from a serious
problem.

Most Cubs fans live in a perpetual state of denial, refusing to pay
attention to historical trends, such as a 98-year championship drought
and empirical data that proves once and for all the Cubs will never win
a World Series championship in their lifetime.

Most of these people, coincidentally, still watch "Matlock."

Denial is often a great state to be in, like Arizona, but only for a
while. It's not recommended for those with a taste for star-crossed
franchises with friendly confines in sports-crazed towns like Chicago.

But deny they do, year after year, beer after beer, Bartman after
Bartman.

A fair-sized percentage of otherwise intelligent Cubs fans believed
this was the Cubs year because the Red Sox and White Sox won
back-to-back championships in '04 and '05 to end their own
karma-induced droughts. They failed to realized the Cubs' drought is
remarkably original and unalterably ridiculous...

But don't feel sorry for Cubs fans. They'll rebound after another long,
hard Chicago winter, and by mid-February they'll have convinced
themselves that 2007 is "the year."

Denial is what they do best. It's genetic.

Paul Sullivan covers the Cubs for the Chicago Cubune.

Lance Freezeland wrote:

> You cut out some of the best parts, Doc:
>

You're right. I was just wanted to post a few highlights, in doing so
though I snipped good stuff.

Paul Sullivan is the Tribune Cubbie beat writer. Interesting that
Sullivan writes his most sarcastic remarks about the Cubs for a St.
Louis newspaper. Why not print those cutting remarks in the Cubune?

"The Tribune?
You mean the official newspaper of the Chicago Cubs?
How can anybody there even pretend to be unbiased about baseball when
his, or her, sportswriting checks come from the same hand that writes
checks for Kerry Wood and John McDonough?
Throwing stones from a glass house?
The Trib is rolling boulders from a crystal palace. Look up conflict of
interest in the dictionary, and you might find Dennis FitzSimons and
the Trib sports department in a group photo." - Rick Telander, Sun-Times