The "Send the Cubs some of your mojo" thread

by znohitter on May 23, 2009 12:22 AM CDT

This is not a post for serious discussion of how to get the bats working. It is a post for what you are going to do at some point before the next game to make the Cubs bust out of this skid.

I plan on digging out my old baseball cards and finding a good group of Cubs players to carry around in my shirt pocket. I'm also going to quietly mutter hexes at any Padres logos I see.

And before the skeptics start in, you have no way of proving that the right combination of things isn't working until it finally fails to work. (HA! Your own scientific models turned against you! Take that, rational fandom!)

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Send all the mojo you want

My way to get them going is to not watch them during a beautiful weekend here in CT.

Tomorrow they play at 10PM here. Sorry Extra Innings, I got plans to hang out with some friends.

Sunday 4PM game….anyone want to come over and play some beer pong in the outdoors instead?

Sorry, I’m a full Cubs fan, I’ve watched 95% of the season in the last 3 years but if they aren’t able to win, I can’t let myself stay indoors and not enjoy it. If they do happen to win and turn it around, I’m happy to see replays on Sports Center.

Everyone who is stressed, just take the weekend off. Enjoy it with family and friends. If you’re going to freak out over another loss, just don’t put yourself through it this weekend. It’s not worth it in May.

by ak123 on May 23, 2009 1:11 AM CDT reply actions

Guys, I have found the root of the problem:

A few days ago before we had lost all these games in a row I had found a tye-dyeish Cubs wrist band (like those blue “Believe” bands except blue red and white) in my closet and I figured, what the hell, Ill put it on my right wrist.

I ALREADY have on a solid red Cubs band around my right wrist and I gave it quick thought after Lee flied out tonight: I immediately took of the band and threw it as far away from me as I could and I plan on cutting it up when I come across it again.

Wa-lah. The end of the slump is upon us.

"It's hard to win 97 games, it's hard to win the division. Our attitude is if you get in every year, you get in most of the time, sooner or later you are going to knock that door down." -- Jim Hendry

by EJThunder on May 23, 2009 1:47 AM CDT reply actions

Well let's see

I had missed the last few games of the losing streak and I thought for sure that by participating in the game thread today (while “watching” on gameday and listening to WGN radio) that I would surely break them out of this slump. Obviously that didn’t work.

BUT I wasn’t wearing the luckiest of my lucky Cub shirts. I WILL be wearing it to follow tomorrow’s game. I will also be wearing one Cubs hat (I FOOLISHLY didn’t wear one until was already rally cap time last night) while letting my Bernese Mt Dog, Gryphon, wear my other one (see my profile pic).

Now unfortunately, I’ll probably just have the Cubs hat resting next to Gryphon’s head — the poor boy has injured his back rather seriously and is drugged out of his mind all weekend to try to let the muscles stop spasming, relax, and hopefully start to heal. However, I do see this as a can’t-miss scenario: lucky shirt + lucky cap + lucky cap on sick dog = Cubs win one for the Grypher!

The only thing I’m not completely sure of is whether I should wear my newer Cubs hat and let Gryphon have the older one or vice versa. Anyone have advice on this? Keep in mind that your answer could very well determine whether or not the Cubs win the WS this year.

Oops.. gotta go.. time to take my meds… :D

by CubFanInCanberra (9387milesfromWrigley) on May 23, 2009 2:07 AM CDT reply actions

Hmmm.

Gotta think about this one for a while.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on May 23, 2009 5:48 AM CDT reply actions

You can have your money and your mojo

But I get to eat your baby….

Get in my belly!

by salparadise23 on May 23, 2009 8:56 AM CDT reply actions

Misfits?

I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.

by daver on May 23, 2009 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions

Fat Bastard

by salparadise23 on May 23, 2009 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions

this is getting comical around here

we have our threads now for

Hate
Mojo
*Excuses

with the Fox love mixed in, followed by Zambrano is a horrible pitcher with how he wants to get hits, concluded with “Lee is up to .240 we should all rejoice”

WOW is all I can say

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on May 23, 2009 12:34 PM CDT reply actions

Hate to break it

but this team may break out of their hitting slump, but ultimately it won’t matter much. The window for this team to win has just about closed. I know more “doom and gloom;” that’s all I have left after a lifetime of fanhood for a team unable to get over the proverbial hump.

ak123- I agree, life is too short and precious to worry about the Cubs everyday. The season is way too long and I’ve watched way too many games on sunny Colorado days.

"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." - Dick Butkus

"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu

by propheteer on May 23, 2009 1:44 PM CDT reply actions