5/23: Super Cobs (Wells) @ Padres (Cy Young) 9:05 PM CT CSN

[rynefan]

Bases loaded. Great.

[rynefan]

NO way. The pitcher. Again.

[rynefan]

We're all fools for watching this.

[inari]

This is one of the times where the people that say "game over" early in the game are fully justified in doing so.

[rynefan]

This is one of the times where the people that say "game over" early in the game are fully justified in doing so.

 

Amen.

[Cynosure]

this is also kind of the wrong thread

[gflore34]

What a fitting ending to the trip another Bradley grounder that barely made it to an infielder.

[gflore34]

What a fitting ending to the trip another Bradley grounder that barely made it to an infielder.

 

Wrong thread but, nevertheless, pretty much the manner in which every Cub game has ended lately.

[Andy]

The answer to the question is that the 2008 Cubs team was the best team any of us have seen in our lifetimes, and it still didn't matter. After mid-April and the Rich Hill meltdown, we caught every conceivable break. The other teams in the division started slow. Jim Edmonds did what guys always do with the Cardinals. Jeff Samardzija came up and immediately was unhittable - at least for a short time. We got one of the most supremely gifted pitchers in baseball handed to us for nothing more than minor league fodder and Sean Gallagher. We got good if not great years from our veteran stars - Soriano, Ramirez, Lee - had the rookie of the year, got a pretty good year out of both halves of a Cajun Connection that we definitely would've been whining about if it had happened in STL, had a no-hitter...

 

...and none of it mattered jack crap.

 

What happened was we realized the only goal is to get to October. No longer matters how we do it or how good we actually are. Never again will we think "this team is different" or "there's something special about these guys", variations on which I said or saw posted on here or heard talked about roughly 8 gazillion times last year. Because it's not true. It's about getting to October and praying you'll have hot bats and shutdown pitching when it matters. Has nothing to do with who's best. That's why we don't care about these games anymore.

 

And yeah, I'm still not over last year, either. Might not be for a long time.