I must say its taken quite some time to get around to writing this obituary. Now that the Yanks have been sunk, their despair has shed some light on my own. Was it bad? Hell yes! They were lifeless, utterly weak and didn't even seem as if they looked like they deserved to belong.
The only bright spot on the team was Soto-their most recent addition who was unaware, too naive to understand or new to comprehend any curse. What can you say about a team that didn't even look like it tried. They were never in any single game for more than 20 minutes.
A realistic look at the season shows that, yes, they weren't a very good team in a very poor division. They failed miserably against decent teams all year- rarely scoring with men on base. This is the essence of baseball and no one strands base runners like the Cubs.
If their timing was off, correct timing would have been exposed sooner than later. They simply were not that good and very rarely did the entire team click.
In the end, this season will not be remembered as the series that Lou lost, but the end of an era. The Tribune era is officially over! It wasn't as bad as most thought and it was better than the Wrigley era.
Whatever owner holds the reigns next year, the Cubs should compete and be improved. This year suffered from Lou's unfamiliarity with the team and lack of consistency with the lineup.
Wait until next year sucks, but what choice do we have. We'll watch every game again and hope for the unimaginable. Shakespeare didn't have a clue about the tragedy we know.
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