To say the cubs choked this year does not do justice, becasue you actually have to show up to the game in order to choke. No no a choke is when you are 5 outs away from a World Series and then fall apart an blame it on a fan. This may be the worst cubs postseason loss yet. In 03 they were a feel good story, up until september that year they were playing around 500. ball, once september hit Prior and Wood hit theirs strides and carried the team. Once the playoffs hit they were underdogs against a good braves team and ended up winning the series. Then they took on the Marlins another young and up coming team. At this point Cubs fans were thinking hey we didnt expect this but well take it and it could finally happen, but it didnt. But that is ok becasue that year laid the foundation or so we thought. Little did we know that Prior would become best friends with the DL, and wood would turn into Rick Ankiel. You might think last season was worse, well your worng. Last season they did get swept in the 1st round and yes fans were pissed, understandable, but their was a sense of ok now we know next year is are year. Haha well now we are at next year at well.... its still not their year. The cubs won 97 games this year and were clearly the best team in the NL all year. They drew a great matchup against a dodger team that has 1 true weapon in Manny. So what do the Cubs do, well what do you think? They got swept again. The cubs got embarssed in the 1st two games of the series, and game 3 was their best game yet but they only scored 1 run. Heres another problem 1 month ago the Dodgers were 5 games under .500 and had a 8 game losing streak. Lets take a moment to reflex on the job Joe Torre has done and the fact that they WILL be in Fenway for atleast two games with Manny in the outfield. Ok back to our reguarly scheduled ripping of the Cubs. The cubs lost this season becasue they can not hit right handing pitching, this lineup made D. Lowe look like a cy young winner, Billingsley went out there and pitched 6 2/3 an allowed 1 runs, and Hiroki Kuroda who coming in had a 0.59 era against the cubs this season went up and did it again pitching 6.1/3 allowing no runs. The fact that the cubs let these 3 bums beat them is bad. The cubs hitting checked out before this series even started. Soriano went 1-14 and ended the cubs serious with a check swing on a pitch at his feet, Soto went 2-10 after he had a great season, and Ramirez went 2-11. On another note does anyone else see Alfonsio Soriano turning into the black A-rod. Soriano is a career .213 hitter in October with 4 hrs in 44 games. Thats horrible, does he not get the same memo everyone else does that baseball doesnt end in September. To quote Dennis Green "They are who we thought they were." Once again the cubs have left their fans wondering what if. Coming into the year the team slogan was "its gonna happen" well it happened all right, again. I do have a solution on how to end this curse, it goes as followes: bring a goet to home plate... Kill it+ Bartman throws out the 1st pitch+ Bartman sings the 7th inning stretch= a world series.
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