Things That I Know About Chicago Sports
1. Our teams always choke when they're favored--unless it's MJ versus the world.
2. You can only win championships when nobody gets hurt--which almost never happens to Chicago sports teams.
3. As the losses pile up, the manager quickly becomes despised--see Riggleman, Wannstedt, Manuel, etc.
4. The press whips up public opinion by declaring that the front office is chock full of idiots; also by calling out the owners for being cheapskates--see the sports section of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune pretty much always.
5. Management responds to fan backlash with a bunch of bad deals, setting in motion horrendous fortunes for many years to come.
Brock-for-Broglio, Maddux-for-nobody, the signings of Salaam and Enis--these and many, many other bad moves were primarily based on crappy instincts, injuries, or the potential for injuries. Of course, if a team can avoid the first rule, the other four will never come into play, barring the possibility of some action based on bad instincts or poor reactions due to health concerns.
However, it's ridiculous to expect that each and every athlete will remain 100% healthy for an entire season. Most of the time, though, the team that avoids injuries will win the championship. Unfortunately for fans of the Windy City, our guys have a terrible propensity toward long-term ailments and freak injuries.
Take this year's Cub team, for example. Their pre-season disabled list already includes "Numbers 1 and 1-A," who MUST make 20 starts each if we have any chance in hell of beating Houston and St. Louis. Yet, Prior is playing catch, Wood is throwing a dozen pitches at most, and the season starts in four days. What a joke.
The Sox, on the other hand, begin the season with everybody healthy and jizzing over themselves over the 2005 championship. Last year, they miraculously kept everybody healthy, from start to finish. What is the likelihood that all of their guys stay healthy for the entire year again in 2006? Pretty low, I'd wager. I really hope (and, as a Chicagoan, I expect) that this bullshit cutesy Jerry-Kenny-Ozzie hugs-and-kisses crap morphs into a terrible soap opera involving many firings and bad moves after--let's just say--Podsednik, Cotts, and Buehrle go down. Nothing like that happened last year, but it's bound to happen some time. Just you wait, Sux Side Faithful, for the d.l. is creeping up on you, and you're not even aware of it.
One other thing: Is anybody else totally sick of NFL draft coverage?
2. You can only win championships when nobody gets hurt--which almost never happens to Chicago sports teams.
3. As the losses pile up, the manager quickly becomes despised--see Riggleman, Wannstedt, Manuel, etc.
4. The press whips up public opinion by declaring that the front office is chock full of idiots; also by calling out the owners for being cheapskates--see the sports section of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune pretty much always.
5. Management responds to fan backlash with a bunch of bad deals, setting in motion horrendous fortunes for many years to come.
Brock-for-Broglio, Maddux-for-nobody, the signings of Salaam and Enis--these and many, many other bad moves were primarily based on crappy instincts, injuries, or the potential for injuries. Of course, if a team can avoid the first rule, the other four will never come into play, barring the possibility of some action based on bad instincts or poor reactions due to health concerns.
However, it's ridiculous to expect that each and every athlete will remain 100% healthy for an entire season. Most of the time, though, the team that avoids injuries will win the championship. Unfortunately for fans of the Windy City, our guys have a terrible propensity toward long-term ailments and freak injuries.
Take this year's Cub team, for example. Their pre-season disabled list already includes "Numbers 1 and 1-A," who MUST make 20 starts each if we have any chance in hell of beating Houston and St. Louis. Yet, Prior is playing catch, Wood is throwing a dozen pitches at most, and the season starts in four days. What a joke.
The Sox, on the other hand, begin the season with everybody healthy and jizzing over themselves over the 2005 championship. Last year, they miraculously kept everybody healthy, from start to finish. What is the likelihood that all of their guys stay healthy for the entire year again in 2006? Pretty low, I'd wager. I really hope (and, as a Chicagoan, I expect) that this bullshit cutesy Jerry-Kenny-Ozzie hugs-and-kisses crap morphs into a terrible soap opera involving many firings and bad moves after--let's just say--Podsednik, Cotts, and Buehrle go down. Nothing like that happened last year, but it's bound to happen some time. Just you wait, Sux Side Faithful, for the d.l. is creeping up on you, and you're not even aware of it.
One other thing: Is anybody else totally sick of NFL draft coverage?
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