Chicago Cubs: The Biggest Loser

Every day there is something new to read about in the world of sports. 

We junkies, as most of us are, read with interest as Tiger Woods won yet another tournament or the Boston Red Sox captured their second World Series title in four years. 

But every once in awhile something so unbelieveable, so awe-inspiring and incredible, happens that makes you stand up and take notice. 

Yes, I am here to report such a fantastic and delicious story to you.

If the Cubs follow form and end the 2008 baseball season with yet another title-less season, they will have gone 100 years without a championship.  My heartfelt congrats goes out to a team that could think of pulling off such a feat.

Do you know how difficult it is to spend millions of dollars each year on players, managers, coaches, scouting staff, front office management and go a century without winning even one world title? 

You would think that just by sheer luck one of these teams would have stumbled their way to a title.  Those lovable Cubs who have somehow bucked the odds to stand at the edge of the cliff of fame with just one more losing season.

Let's not kid ourselves, there have been seasons when I believed the Cubs may have actually tried to win.  There's the Cubs of the late 60s.  They didn't bring in a tough manager like "Leo the Lip" for nothing. 

He brought a winning passion and respect to the clubhouse.  "Nice guys finish last," chortled the grumpy old manager, as he brought out the same lineup card day after day during that hot summer of '69.  And Ron Santo clicking his heels was just too much for the baseball gods to take. 

Then there were the 1984 Cubs that actually had the audacity to win their first ever division title.  They had the daily double, the Sarge, the Red Baron, all winning elements. In fact, they came within nine outs of going to the World Series that year. 

Harry Caray even blurted out that "God must be a Cubs fan" that year.

Once again, however, fate was not on their side as Bull Durham spilled Gatorade on his glove and watched that ground ball for a key hit in the seventh inning of the playoffs.

Then there was 2003.  Yes, Bartman.  Again, they were a mere nine outs away from reaching the holy grail.  The only thing more appropriate would have been if the kid's name was Goatman.

Expansion teams, wild card teams, and teams with moderately low payrolls have won the World Series.  These were teams with great chemistry and who fought like hell.  Even the "cursed" have won it all, but not the Cubs.

Reality TV has nothing on the Cubs, the biggest losers.  Instead of dreading yet another pathetic season of Cubs history, I say we celebrate their accomplishment of being the worst. Way to go Cubbies! 

Remember what Jack Brickhouse once said, "Anyone can have a bad century." 

It makes you wonder just how Philadelphia got to 10,000 losses first.  Watch out Cubs, they may be trying to steal your limelight.