Cubs Swept. National Joke Continues.

Writer's Note: This is going to be a ridiculous rant written in the immediate aftermath of the Game 3 loss. It will be full of vitriol and probably not all that coherent. After sleeping on it, I probably won't be this pissed and will most likely regret posting tonight. But hey, writing it made me feel better. So I'm leaving it up.

What a waste of a summer.

First and foremost-If anyone says a word about a curse, they should be punched in the face. Repeatedly. This isn’t about 1969 or 1984 or anything else in the history of this franchise. Those teams have nothing to do with the garbage that we had to sit through this week. I don’t care about black cats, billy goats, or anything like that. To blame this on some nonexistent curse would be to absolve this team of the responsibility for this disaster.

This team just flat out choked. There is no other description for the abortion that has taken place over the last four days.

Everybody knows that five game playoff series are a crap shoot-a little bounce here and there mean a lot. They tell you almost nothing about who the better team truly is. But let’s be clear: this series was not a crap shoot. This was a team crapping down its leg. There are no two ways about it. It wasn’t about a couple pitches or at bats. If they would have lost this series in a few close games that just didn’t work out, I would have been upset, but I would have lived with it.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a series of close games that just didn’t work out. It was a bunch of guys who showed no guts whatsoever and couldn’t handle the pressure of the playoffs, completely and utterly embarrassing themselves in the process. They deserve to be the national joke that they’ve just become.

Some wonderful truths about this series:

This is only the second time since 1969 that the team with the best record in the league has gotten swept in the first round.

The Cubs had as many errors as runs in the series.

The Cubs (who, by the way, led the league in OBP this year) had 6 walks in the entire series. The Dodgers had that many walks by the FIFTH INNING OF GAME ONE.

None of the three Cubs starters even made it five innings in any start.

And almost impossibly, Alfonso Soriano was actually worse in this year’s series (1-14) than last year (2-14). Only six years and about $100 million left on that contract!

Pathetic. Nothing short of pathetic. I hate this team. I hate every player. Every single goddamn one. I have never in my life been this disgusted with a Cubs team. This is not the lovable losers-they’re just a bunch of fucking losers. I’m tired of this wait until next year crap. All of you on this team can shove it.

It’s simple: from now on, if you play like champions you’ll get treated like champions. Play like shit and you’ll get treated like shit-and you deserve nothing better. Enough of this standing and cheering for 2 strike counts in the 3rd inning of a game in May. Prove you’re a real team with professionals who can handle pressure situations and I’ll be happy to devote all my energy to you. But I’m not going to let this ever happen again.

Every one of those 97 wins this year was utterly and completely worthless. You have just pissed away all the goodwill you’ve built up with this fanbase all year. You wasted my time and the time of every fan who devoted even an ounce of emotion into your craptacular season. Thanks a lot, you gutless losers.