Baseball Playoffs - NLCS and ALCS

[chequita guevara]

On the other hand, everything is still right with the universe.

[Adam Smith]

Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
Copyright Steve Goodman, 1981

(talking blues)
By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
'Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head the put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them "its late and its getting dark in here"
And I know its time to go
But before I leave the line-up
There's just one thing I'd like to know

(Chorus, sung)
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
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the national league


(talking blues)
Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can."
That's what it says.
"But the year the Cubs last won a national league pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teacher's
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy

and then one thing led to another
soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacross, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boys hope
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.

Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for pigeons beneath the "EL" track to eat
He said "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore
before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
and I'll read you my last request
Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the National Anthem
and then a little "na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye"
Make six bull pen pitchers, carry my coffin
and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Kieth Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die

Build a big fire on home plate out of your 'Louisville Sluggers' baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in the beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour south west wind
When my last remaind go flying over the left field wall
Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue

The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I'm going to do
He said but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!

And he said "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
The one I like the best
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub fan's last request

(Chorus, big finish, sung)
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
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the national league

Wait till next year .....

[ixnay]

[Tuberski]

So much for the vaunted Woods-Prior combo.

ACK!

[Drake Tungsten]

I bet the network execs at Fox are more upset than any of you. If the Red Sox lose as well, there may be some suicides.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Wow...what a time to have the first ever Prior/Woods back-to-back losses

[Ben Kenobi]

On the other hand, everything is still right with the universe.

On the other hand, consider yourselves lucky. The Red Sox are a much bigger tease than the Cubbies. Would the Cubbies take you all the way to the last game of the Series, 1 strike away from the win, and still lose the game?

[asleepathewheel]

1908

[Jules]

*sigh*

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Sorry, but I think the Marlins are this years "team of destiny", like the Angels were last year.

ACK!

So far, my prediction from the playoff thread is still accurate!

ACK!

[Adam Smith]

Got this e-mail from my college roommate, whose primary moral deficiency is that he is a Yankees fan...

....On October 8, 2003 the New York Times < which still claims to be the hometown paper of New York (hence the reason it's not called "The Boston Times") > editorially endorsed the Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees in the hope of a World Series match-up between the Sox and the Chicago Cubs < two teams God put on this earth to teach their fans that life isn't fair.>....

But how the Times could have failed to inform readers that they are part owners of the Boston Red Sox is beyond me. ....

The Times is deciding what is best for the world < as they see it >. That's fine. Indeed, it may be exactly what a newspaper like the Times should be doing. But it's not patriotic, because its editors are writing from Olympus, not America < or New York >. ... if I rant and rave about all that, lots of people may think: What the hell are you talking about? But, if I say: "Look: The New York Times rooted for the Red Sox over the New York Yankees," they might see what I'm getting at.


Any truth to any of this?

[Victor Galis]

I still can't believe the Cubs lost

[badams52]

Ahhh, now it all makes sense. The Cubs HAD to lose today so that Boston can win tomorrow just to extend their futility into the World Series and lose it once again. You see, we will never see a Cubs - Sox world series because one of them would have to win which goes against all that is right in the world.

[Theben]

All we need now is for the Yankee to win for this to go from the most interesting playoffs ever to the least...

****ing Marlins...I don't care what the score was...maybe the Cubs effed up but the MArlins have ******* fans and ******* players. They don't deserve 1 world series, let alone another.

[Soul Survivor]

it was surprisingly calm outside wrigley, they brought in a TON of riot police.

there were a brunch of arrests, one guy climbed the wall from the street into the stands

I'm just hoping to wake up tomorrow and realize tonight was all a dream and the cubs make it to the world series...........