First to 80
Posted on August 25, 2008 - Filed Under Sports, baseball
With us approaching the last few weeks of baseball, the Cubs are still playing like the best team in baseball. It’s getting harder and harder to not want to believe this year is finally here. Even as someone whose really only been a cubs fan since Sosa and McGuire were battling it out for the then Home run record, I feel I’ve learned alot about the Cubs history and lived a little of it with the ‘bartman’ incident.
However here we are, 100 years since the last time the cubs won a world series. The cubs doing things they haven’t done since 1908, like have the best record in baseball this late in the year. Things in the world even seem to be shapping up that it’s time what was once status quo to change. The olympics had their first back-to-back gold medal winners in volleyball. US womens softball lost their first ever womens Olympic game. The US basketball team actually played like a team. Britian had their most Gold Medals since 1908. For the first time in a long time that a country besides Russia(or the USSR) or USA didn’t lead the gold medal count when the Olympics ended. The Democratic Convention is back in Denver, the first time since…you guessed it, 1908. It just feels like it’s finally time.
The Cubs are doing what every fan has wanted them to do and that is quite simply, win. With Zambrano, Demster, and Harden leading the rotation how can we not get excited about a playoff run? With the best Home Record in the NL and home field advantage a virtual lock how can that excitment not peak a bit higher? Then you look at the offense on the team with Lee, Ramierz, Soto, and DeRosa howcan you not get just a bit more exicted. Then you have Marmol and Wood in the bullpen and you just begin to forget about the past 100 years. You forget about bartmans, black cats, and goats. All thats left is belief. The belief that it is going to be this year. That Waveland is going to be packed, Wrigely filled to the brim, and a sense of chaos just on the verge of being emptied into the streets of Chicago.
It’s not just the NL that’s making this series look to be a great one, and heck it’s not just the Cubs that are getting Chicago excited. With the Twins and White Sox competing for their division. With only one series left against each other, it quite possible the loser of the division will be the winner of the AL wild card. Which if Tampa continues doing what it’s been doing all year, will mean no Boston and no Yankees in the playoffs. With a little help from Phily, there might be no New York teams at all in the post season.
This season, like almost all baseball seasons is a great one. With it’s own great stories, with it’s own new additions to the game, it’s own great plays and players. It’s just another great year for baseball.
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Don’t give up on our Cubbies!! We went to the game on Aug 29th and it was so exciting to be in the stadium. We have tickets next Thursday for the Brewers game. Hopefully we’ll pick up a few more wins before we play them. Go Cubs!
Zambrano pitches the first no hitter since 1972. Cubs win! Today Lilly has pitched 6 innings without a hit. One more thing going right for the Cubbies, Milwaukee fires their coach, Ned Yost, with 2 weeks left in the season and a chance at the wild card. That should help us win our series with them starting tomorrow. I am going to the game on Thursday. We have a chance to clinch. It would be great to be at the ballpark on that day. Go Cubbies!!!!
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