Chicago Hopeless: It's Good Not To Be a Cubs Fan

As a Red Sox fan, it's encouraging to hear that Boston is trying to acquire two-time Cy Young winner Johan Santana from the Twins.

Then again, the Red Sox have already won two World Series championships in the past four years. And I contend that anything after 2004 is bound to be anticlimactic.

I don't know if other Sox fans would agree with me—but didn't we all say we wanted to see the Sox win ONE championship in our lifetimes?

Fait accompli.

Listen, I love the Red Sox—but it's not fair for Beantown to hog the spotlight. After all, what about teams in other cities?

And more specifically, what about the Chicago Cubs?

Why aren't the Cubs players in the Santana sweepstakes? Shouldn't a team with such a sorry history do something to correct it?

Yes, I know the Cubs made a huge splash in signing Alfonso Soriano last year. But see, that was last year.

Chicago already lost out in the Alex Rodriguez nonsense this offseason. The team was a joke in the 2007 playoffs. And it only gets worse if you go further back in time.

The 2003 postseason was brutal—for both the Cubs and the Sox. Boston, however, bounced back from their '03 ALCS Game Seven meltdown at Yankee Stadium to win the 2004 World Series.

The Cubs still haven't recovered from the Bartman Incident—much less the so-called "Billy Goat" curse from 1945.

Teams like the Florida Marlins (twice) and Anaheim Angels have won the World Series in the last dozen years. Even the cross-town White Sox have won it.

And yet the Chicago Cubs haven't been world champs since 1908.

That's going on 100 years, if anyone's counting.

And if the Cubs don't get their act together this offseason, the streak is bound to continue.

The Dodgers, who haven't won a postseason series since 1988, made noise in signing Andruw Jones. The small-market A's are rumored to be in the running for Barry Bonds—who'd surely be a huge upgrade over the overrated and over-the-hill Mike Piazza.

Too bad for the Cubs. What a sad-sack franchise. What a sad-sack town.

Look at those 6-12 Bulls, and those 5-8 Bears—a bunch of loser, last-place outfits.

It's nightmares like that that make me all the more grateful to be a Boston fan. Now if only the Bruins could turn things around too à la the Sox, Pats, and Celts...

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