Posts tagged with 'Cubs'

    • Cubs Eulogizing

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, OCTOBER 10 2007 09:00 AM | PERMALINK

      Another year of Cubs optimism turned sour

      If this young fall season has reiterated anything to us as sports fans, it is the utter hell that is the existence of a Cubs fan. Another year, another tease. Another year started off in spring with bitter cynicism, melted by humid summer months of good play, then refrozen by a fall collapse.

      And I get to do it all again next year. Hello, I am a Cubs fan, and this is my plight. Gather round all you Cardinals, Astros and White Sox fans, gather around and...

    • Hot and Cold MLB Teams, A Black Cloud Over Ann Arbor and The Box Break Winner

      POSTED BY PETE SIMMONS, SEPTEMBER 04 2007 03:07 PM | PERMALINK

      On today’s show, we highlight a scorching hot MLB team and a frigidly cold one. Plus, we break down the University of Michigan DEBACLE and hear from their tortured – and suicidal – fan base.

      Plus, we’re giving away the tin of Sweet Spot collectibles to a lucky viewer!

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    • Top Ten Worst Sports Fans

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 27 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

      10.) Cincinnati Bengals fans: Tigers can't change their stripes, and Cincinnati Bengals fans can't change how fickle they are. During the lean years of futility in the franchise history, in which the team posted 14 consecutive losing seasons, seeing a Bengals jersey on the street happened about as many times as Pete Rose turns down a bet ... very rarely. Now that Marvin Lewis has brought the Bengals back to the elite levels of the NFL, the city is awash in a hyperactive frenzy of orange and black in...

    • Cubs Remain Cursed!

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 07 2007 03:23 PM | PERMALINK

      Given the Cubs' torrid play over the last month and their steady gain on the first place position in the NL central, the Cubs appeared to be in the midst of a season of destiny stirring memories of their amazing (and heartbreaking) play during the "year of the Bartman." Just as then, Cubs fans have been bracing themselves for the inevitable "the-curse-raises-its-ugly-head" moment. They probably felt that they had seen it when their best hitter, Alfonso Soriano, pulled up with an obviously painful...