Sports Thread #1 for 10/4-5/08- Just A Cub Feeling
Sorry Cubs fans guess there will be one more "Wait Til next year" (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) By James Eddy I am going to apologize to all Chicago Cubs fans, or maybe ESPN should apologize for making Cub fans everywhere believe there team was going to win the World Series. Throughout the summer we had to hear about how magically the Cubs had finally found a way to put it together and were on the yellow brick road to the World Series. Most pessimists were trying to find ways that the Cubs would blow it, but the more they looked the better the Cubs played. The Cubs dominated the National League Central, and by early September had the Astros and Brewers battling for the Wild Card spot. When the Cubs did face adversity, they received help from the strangest places. When the Cubs were thin at outfield they got help from veteran outfielder Jim Edmonds who was released by the San Diego Padres (who missed the playoffs) earlier in the season. When it seemed that ace Carlos Zambrano was goi...