Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Holy Cow!

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When it comes to Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs are the "lovable losers." Even people who hardly know a thing about the Cubs, or baseball, or even sports in general, know that it's been 107 years since the Cubs won a World Series (they won back-to-back series in 1907 and 1908). They were so bad for so many years that longtime Cubs fan, the late Steve Goodman, wrote a song called "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request," in which he lamented, "Do they still play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls around? When the snow melts away do the Cubbies still play in their ivy-covered burial ground?" Goodman went on to call them "the doormat of the National League" in that song. If you have watched a Cubs game on TV or seen one in person, you know they play a song called "Go, Cubs, Go" after a victory. That was also written and performed by Steve Goodman (it was reportedly the last song he recorded before he died from complications of leukemia in September 1984). It has a more positive outlook: "they've got the power, they've got the speed to be the best in the National League." Ironically, days after Goodman died in 1984 the Cubs clinched their first appearance in the postseason since 1945 ("the year we dropped the bomb on Japan" Goodman sang in "Dying Cub Fan's Last Request"). Now they're back in the postseason for the first time since 2008. A lot of people are rooting for the Cubs to break the 107-year-old drought of winning the World Sries. Even though I am a Cubs fan, I would root for them simply to get all these sports announcers to SHUT UP about the fact that "the Cubs haven't won since 1908." (They tend to harp on things like that: they said something similar about the Red Sox' long World Series drought until they finally won in the mid-2000's; and Phil Mickelson was tagged as "the best player to never win a major" until he actually won one [he has five majors now: British Open, PGA CChampionship, and three Masters victories]...and they've never given anyone else that dubious title, implying they were "picking" on Lefty.) Even though they lost the game they were playing, the other teams were eliminated from the wild card race by their losses, so the Cubs won. As Harry Carey used to say, "Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow!" Or as Steve Goodman put it, "Go, Cubs, Go!" Good luck in the postseason!