I found this highly amusing little poem* (a new twist on the oringal one) about the Chicago Cubs today in the Sports section of the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
These are the cruelest of echoing words:
No Tinker. No Evers. No Chance.
Spend all they can, Cubs still chasing the 'Birds.
Since Tinker and Evers and Chance.
A goat and his curse; a scapegoat and his error,
Black cat greets Santo, raising defeatists fans' hair.
Ernie Banks-one of the greats who never got there.
No Tinker. No Evers. No Chance.
Sweet Lou brings his brash to friendly confines.
He once won as much as Frank Chance.
Cubs renewed hopes flourish wehn Soriano signs.
They tinker, forever, for a chance.
When other clubs reversed curses, Cubs knew they should,
But roster was flimsy, built on Prior and Wood.
Up comes the hymm: "Wait 'till next year. Then we'll be good."
No Tinker. No Evers. No Chance.
*In 1910, New York columnist Franklin Pierce Adams wrote a poem that immortalized the Cubs' double-play combo and, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's website, helped "them gain admission to (Cooperstown) as a trio 36 years later. Click here to read the article on the front page of the Sports page.
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Collectively, we Cubs fans have a pretty big sense of humor about these things. If we didn't, we'd all off ourselves. But this morning's Post-Dispatch angered me. And it ticked off Tony LaRussa as well: http://www.kmov.com/video/sports-index.html?nvid=139395
Probably because the Cubs showed the Cards tonight that there IS a chance.
P.S. On a side note, despite our distinct differences on baseball teams, we seem to share similar ideas about the titles of our blogs. Check mine out at http://bluesden.blogspot.com/
A cubs fan in St. Louis! Wow! That's almost unheard of. I can see why Tony LaRussa got upset but I really don't think he should have lost his temper. I have heard and seen worse things about the Cubs. The Cards/Cubs rivarly is tradition, we poke fun at them, they poke fun at us, end of story. Yes, the Cubs won last night, kudos to Jason Marquis to winning again. He deserved to after getting his ring, and the way Preston Wilson acted. Breaking his bat after he struck out, I mean come on- that's stupid and not setting a good example for the youths. I think Wilson should be sent down to Memphis and have them bring up J-Rod.
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