(tongue in cheek of course) I thought you were talking about the RED Sox.

I’m not worried a bit about it. Should it happen the Cubs would be prohibitive favourites. Look at it this way, which team (owner, GM, manager, some players and thousands of fans) has the inferiority complex?

And I don’t really see this possibility as a nightmare per se. It would be total chaos, a heretofore unwitnessed media feeding frenzy and an event capable of forcing Mayor Daley to declare martial law within the city limits for the remainder of the calendar year. But a nightmare? Nahhhhhhh.

“If the Cubs and Sox reach the World Series, the Sox will win because they have nothing to lose! I don’t deserve to be writing about sports because I only write complete nonsense!”

I can’t read the Tribune sportswriters anymore.

That Jay Mariotti resigned from the Suntimes and was now writing for the Tribune, but alas, it was our buddy Phil Rogers.

Does anyone doubt that if it happens the utter stupidity radiating from the papers, radio and tv will reach a level never reached before.

That article dropped my IQ 50 points. I used to watch Masterpiece Theater. Now Barney goes over my head.

Playing the white sox in the WS wouldn’t mean anymore or less then playing the angels or the rays. Since I don’t live in Chicago, I don’t have to deal with white sox fans. You can find Cubs fans all over the country, but you very rarely see white sox fans outside of Chicago.

Is losing to ANYONE in the playoffs this year, regardless of what round it happens in or whether or not Ozzie Guillen’s involved. Losing to the Sox might be a Cub fan’s biggest nightmare, if it means the meathead portion of Sox fans becomes even more insufferable, but for the team anything less than a WS win is equally bad.

This is the classic example of a “Crap, almost deadline, what do I write?” article. It requires no research, is highly speculative and manages to play off people’s emotions. And I should know because I’ve written many of them myself.

is themselves.

The Cubs should completely block out the whole “100 years of losing” out of their heads. When they start thinking about that they will start to press and try to do too much. They just need to go out, relax, and play the beautiful game of baseball.

If this is meant to be (which I sure as hell hope it is) things will allign and fall in to place on their own.

Chicago I may see things differently than those who live there. If the Cubs are fortunate enough to make it to the WS I don’t want to share the spotlight with the Sux. I want it to be all Chicago Cubs all the time.

All I’m concerned about right now is getting there.

I do not want the Cubs to have to play in any of those awful AL rollerdomes like Minnesota or Tampa. Remember they got swept in Tampa in June. Anaheim is also tough with all the monkey wavin white people and the constant videogame atmosphere that never stops. Bring on the Sox.