These days leading up to this year’s trade deadline have been worse than I thought. I don’t know if that’s the reason I’ve been feeling like I’ve been feeling or what… but I just want it to be over already. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. Like KB said, it’s out of my control…
Remember when guys played their whole career for one team? You know how many guys played their entire career with the Cubs? I wrote about this before. Ernie Banks and Stan Hack… that’s it. 2 guys over almost 150 years… I talked about how some teams have more; not many teams have less. What gives? Well, I guess we’re starting to see what gives.
It’s funny. The Cubs bar for winning has always been so low, pretty much my whole life. We had 1984, which was a magical year… but the Cubs blew it, like most people older than my 8 years at the time probably figured. 1989 was fun too, but it ended the same way. We had a couple other years since then, before the Golden Era started in 2015. Since 2015, and obviously the year that followed, that Cubs low winning bar had been raised… all the way to the top. Staying out of the basement in the standings isn’t good enough. Having a 500 record isn’t good enough. Making the playoffs isn’t good enough. Winning a playoff game isn’t good enough. Winning a playoff series isn’t good enough. The only thing that is good enough is winning the whole damn thing. Life moves pretty fast around here.
Hey, I love, love, love that the bar has been raised, and I certainly thought this team would win another, but… if winning the World Series every year is the only measure of success than 29 teams every year have failed. We have to be realistic. We can still strive for the best; we can still want it all… we deserve it. Yet, who here is not satisfied with the last 7 years of Cubs baseball? I’ve said it before, I’ve already said it here… WE ARE LIVING IN THE GOLDEN ERA OF CUBS BASEBALL. Who helped make this era golden? The same guys that we’re trying to dump now… 5 years removed from them helping bring us something we’ve never experienced. Life moves pretty fast around here.
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The Cubs SHOULD be in playoff mode every year. THAT is where the bar should be set. With KB, Javy, and Rizz, the Cubs are in playoff mode… not to mention Willy and Kyle. Those guys alone are enough to make this team a threat. Is it their fault we haven’t won again? Sure. There is blame for them… there has to be… the best players on the team must bear that. There is other blame to pass around no doubt, and maybe a little credit to one of the other 30 major league teams vying for the same thing each year… It’s not perfect… they’re not perfect.
But… we’re going to dump them… I just can’t get this out of my head. Sure, there are moments of frustration where I say “blow it up”, but when I take a step back, and think about it… KB, Rizzo, and Baez should be joining Ernie and Stan when it’s all said and done, as Cubs for life… although Rizzo already has been eliminated from that since he did play for the Padres. Anyways… you get what I’m saying… The closer it gets to that day, the more pissed I’m getting… We’re almost there… it’s a good, and very well could be a bad thing… now let me go back to checking Twitter regularly…
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