Longoria Said It Best

by BeltwayCubsFan on Oct 3, 2008 9:02 AM CDT

"The crowd was more electric but I just played my game." When it comes to October baseball, the Cubs haven't "played their game" since the Bartman meltdown. They are a different creature in the post-season, one seemingly incapable of escaping the weight of history. We can "clean house" as many suggest, but we know that is really not the issue. Have people forgotten the statistics these players put up this year? Players have been added (Soriano, Lilly, DeRosa) with no connection to the past and they still get swept up in what is happening.

I don't recognize this baseball team right now, and feel oddly disconnected from them the last two playoff seasons. I'll tell you when it started for me - Game 7 of 2003. Even when Wood hit that HR I felt disconnected and oddly unemotional. I sweated out games in April more than I am stressing about the last two games. That is odd - I'm almost resigned to what is happening.

I don't know if they will win Saturday, but I can tell you this - the offense will score runs with Fontenot and or Johnson in there rather than Dome.

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Yes!

I heard that sound bite this morning, and my first thought was “why can’t the Cubs play that way?”

You can’t tell me they aren’t playing tight. When you’re tight playing a sport, you can’t perform the way you need to. Baseball is a fluid game. Hitting, pitching, defense all rely on fluid movements. Not what we saw in the last nights second inning.

Love Longoria. Love the Rays story. Hope they pound the White Sox, then whoever they get in the ALCS!

Demp and Rich: proof that people that live in igloos and say "eh" can contibute!

by Canadian Cubs Fan on Oct 3, 2008 9:11 AM CDT reply actions

its funny you mention that

cause ive felt similiarly. the past two days after the cubs have gotten down early I have just sat there in silence, hoping that things would work, but on some level pretty much accepting that this is it.

---AC 00 00 00 - Believe

by mjk83 on Oct 3, 2008 9:42 AM CDT reply actions