The Woes Of Being A Cub Fan

Greg Couch in in the Chicago Sun-Times:

So if Prior is OK or if this is the beginning of the end, the lesson is for the Cubs, who had something with this incredible starting rotation. You can't believe in tomorrow. It's such a waste to think about the future in baseball, to count on it.

How dare the Cubs go into this season -- again -- without a closer. Without one, they were throwing away Prior and Wood, anyway. Exactly what are the Cubs waiting for? Matt Clement is gone, Greg Maddux is getting old.

When this type of rotation comes around, you jump, even if it means overspending. The Cubs brag about their huge payroll, but that's just their magical accounting department again. More than 10 percent of it goes to Sammy Sosa in Baltimore.

If this rotation goes by without one World Series, with all those revenues and record crowds, then that won't be bad luck, and it will be more than incompetence from Cubs ownership. It will be viciousness to the most loyal fans in the world. Remember, they passed on Jim Thome and Pudge Rodriguez two years ago before finishing a game short of the Series.

Ouch. And Yes. And "sigh".