Deja Vu?

[macuser2]

There's been a lot of arguments, discussions, and just general disgust/resignation expressed about the Cubs, both here and in other forums. I'll admit I feel the same way as what many of you have expressed. I have also gotten the feeling that I, and perhaps all of us, have been down this road before.

 

I offer this as an example of why I think I have been there before. I used to be a member/regular poster at that forum, and was just "checking in" this morning. That's how I found this resurrected thread.

There's probably threads similar to that one hiding in the archives here. I haven't looked because I don't want to more discouraged; I am also lazy.

 

This old thread suggested this question to me: If the 2003 season hadn't happened, would any of us really be so depressed about what has been happening this year?

[Electron Blue]

Maybe, but so? I think the 2003 season gave Cubs fans a taste of the playoffs, which is certainly a reasonable expectation.

[Sosa21MVP]

This old thread suggested this question to me: If the 2003 season hadn't happened, would any of us really be so depressed about what has been happening this year?

 

Anytime the Cubs have a winning season/playoff berth it raises the bar of expectations and makes subsequent losing seasons more disappointing. And that is the way it should be. A well run organization should find ways to build upon success rather than slip back into mediocrity.

[Handlebar McSkullet]

Make no mistake about it.

Nothing compares to the sorrow and dispare of the 2004 season.

These last two years are still a long hangover for me.

Brazell and Vic Diaz... Brazell and Vic Diaz.... I hate LaTroy Hawkins.

[da bears]

2003 definitely raised everyone's expectations. It just makes these past seasons so hard to swallow because we got a glimpse of what the good times feel like and the Cubs got so close that year. If they had just won in 2003, these past two years would be easier to take.

[CubsBullsBears]

It's a collection of things:

- Being so close to going to the World Series in 2003

- Missing the playoffs in 2004, w/ what a team that at least I felt would have won it all had we made the playoffs

- The White Sox winning it all in 2005

- Us sucking majorly this year, while the Cardinals and White Sox continue winning

[Sosa21MVP]

It's a collection of things:

- Being so close to going to the World Series in 2003

- Missing the playoffs in 2004, w/ what a team that at least I felt would have won it all had we made the playoffs

- The White Sox winning it all in 2005

- Us sucking majorly this year, while the Cardinals and White Sox continue winning

 

I guess for me, it is tough to know the Red Sox won it in 2004 and White Sox in 2005. Makes me think even more 2003 was supposed to be The Year for the Cubs. :?

[macuser2]

It's a collection of things:

- Being so close to going to the World Series in 2003

- Missing the playoffs in 2004, w/ what a team that at least I felt would have won it all had we made the playoffs

- The White Sox winning it all in 2005

- Us sucking majorly this year, while the Cardinals and White Sox continue winning

 

I guess for me, it is tough to know the Red Sox won it in 2004 and White Sox in 2005. Makes me think even more 2003 was supposed to be The Year for the Cubs. :?

 

To all this I would add the spending of a lot more money with nothing to show for it. :evil:

[imb]

Obviously the close calls of 2003 and 2004 make this season even more unbearable.

 

This season has been one continuous series of haymakers to the nuts.

 

Close calls in 2003 and 2004, an injury-plagued, wasted 2005, an offseason of getting nothing accomplished followed by poor managing, poor playing, poor planning and more and more injuries to just about every above average player left on our depleted roster.

 

I thought 2000 was bad, but this season has been a constant tea-bagging.

[Chocolate Milk]

I thought 2000 was bad, but this season has been a constant tea-bagging.

 

That's what god would say about this season.