Brent,

Quick solution: pick another team. It'll improve your life immeasurably. Unerring dedication to a consistent loser will, ultimately, turn YOU into a loser ;) For two straight seasons now, the Cubs have choked worse than the chick on the porn site who goes down on a horse.

Go Cards.

-AF

Andy--

I can't hop from team to team like Round Guy. You should know that. You'd support those Cardinals through a 100 loss season, but obviously with quite a bit more pain than a 100 win season. By the way, the Cardinals haven't lost 100 games since 1908, the same year the Cubs last won the World Series. Apparently, I'm just living in the wrong century. Time travel would honestly be easier than switching teams. You've got to stay faithful to your team and learn how to not let their failure affect you.

Would you switch? It's given that you would never choose "losers" like the Cubs in the first place, but would you just jump ship out of the blue? You couldn't. If the Cardinals all of a sudden became the new Devil Rays of baseball, would you suddenly be a Royals fan? Hell no!

We'll see how the Cards do in the post season. I gotta be realistic: they should do well. Should. Unfortunately, they really haven't needed to play worth a darn since, what, August? Teams with the best records in the regular season haven't done well the last few years. Look at last year's Braves. My lovable losers beat them in 5, their first postseason series victory in 95 years. You won't have to face that kind of embarassment.

It looks like you guys will have a tough Dodger team to face in the opening round who will be coming off tonight's dramatic win over their rival Giants. I have no idea who will come out on top, but it ought to go 5 games. Even if the Cards do advance, they could wind up playing the only team they had a losing record against all year: the Astros. They too are coming off a few weeks of playoff-calibur baseball.

Think back to the start of the season. Is this at all how you figured it would play out? I don't know of anyone that expected the Cardinals to be a factor, let alone finish with the best record in baseball by at least 3 games (could be 5 after tomorrow). Very sincerely, I've got to hand it to you folks. The NL Central was toughest division this year and you guys ran away with it early. But, you knew that was going to happen all along, right? When are you ever wrong, oh great and wise Mr. Fales?

Of course, the last game of the 2004 Chicago Cubs is later today. At best, they'll end the year losing 7 of their last 9, but that's looks a little better than 8 of their last 9. Regardless, this ranks as one of the worst-timed cold spells in Cubs history, but still second fiddle to the '69 club who went 8-17 in September; this year's Cubs went 16-11. The 1969 Cubs had a stretch where they lost 11 of 12 games from 9/13/69 - 9/25/69. The 2004 Cubs worst stretch is the one that they'll end the year in, probably leaving quite a sour taste in their mouths for next year.