Wait til Next Year
Posted on October 6, 2008 - Filed Under Sports, baseball
Well…that was a disheartening way to end the season. The Cubs make the playoffs with the best record in NL, one of the best offenses NL, one of the deepest rotations in the NL, and with a good end of the game bullpen. The stars seemed aligned to make a good playoff push.
Sadly, the offense didn’t show up, the starters got lit it up, the bullpen got lit up. It was embarrasing to be just about anyone on the team besides DeRosa and Lee. Soriano managed just 1 hit in the series, and Ramierez left more runners on base then I’d care to count. Demster lost his homefield dominance at the wrong game after getting off to a good start. Zambrano had a decent effort wasted do to multiple errors. Both had an encounter with a Manny moment, including a golf swing homerun in game 1.
So an all around good year that ended on a very sour note. I don’t know what to expect for next season, but I feel we are now in a similar situation as the Mets. We may have a very talented team, but we have a team that isn’t showing up when it matters most. It might be time for the cubs to be sellers instead of buyers this offseason. See if anyone is interested in Soriano, Fukadome, Rameriez, or Demster. Look to get some solid prospects that can be ready while Lee, Soto, and DeRosa are still apart of the club. Changes will need to be made, and we’ll just have to wait and see if those changes will be addition by substraction, or if we just look to increase the payroll.
Cubs fans across the nation are going to be left watching the post season asking what happened. Asking, is the 100 year curse of the Billy goat going to be as long as the 100 year war? Asking was it the pressure the fans, the history, and the game placed on the players that robbed us of our offense. Perhaps the only question with an answer, asking how many days until the Bears play? Just so they can forget another lost year, for reasons they can’t explain and reasons we can’t understand.
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