Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Disappointment

The Chicago Cubs are my favorite NL team. And they needed to win tonight. They needed to win because the north side of Chicago has waited 58 years for a pennant. They needed to win for that fan who tried to catch the ball last night. They needed to win to keep the great story of this post-season going, and story which cannot be repeated for a long time. But they didn't, while a much-maligned "has-been" catcher, a manager who was wrongly fired three years ago, a pitcher named Josh Beckett no one except baseball afficionados had ever heard of, and a 20-year-old rookie living out his dream proved they were champions.

I do like these Marlins. I might root for them in the World Series. But right now, I'm seriously bummed. The air was pregnant with a celebration such as the baseball world has seldom seen, cackling with a hope which emanated from the streets outside Wrigley to right here in Madison and beyond. And now, there is but a painful, empty disappointment as we realize that hope was never more than an especially vivid illusion.

Wait until next year.

UPDATE: Matt Bruce addresses this a lot better than I just did.

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