September 14, 2006

everybody loves the cubs, on wgn

Will everyone love them on HBO?

In Ed Sherman's column in today's Chicago Tribune, he talks about an upcoming HBO documentary that tells the tales of Cubs' woes over the last 98 years.
The documentary, which airs Sept. 26 at 9 p.m. (set those TiVos), is narrated by Dennis Farina and features interviews with former Cubs and celebrity fans.

HBO did a similar documentary on the Boston Red Sox in 2004, and the team went on to win the World Series. Of course, Sherman goes on to make jokes about how the Cubs will win the Series in 2007 as a result of this documentary.

It's great to me that this documentary is being made. I hope I get a chance to watch it. But connecting the fact that the Red Sox won when HBO made a documentary on them to the Cubs fortune is exactly what's wrong with the Cubs, in my opinion. Instead of concentrating on getting a good product on the field and expecting excellence, the Cubs organization and many of its beat writers and fans are content to go on talking about curse, goats and Bartman.

It would be great if the Cubs did win the Series next year. But it's not going to happen because some cosmic force generated by an HBO documentary. It will happen if the team gets a manager who can stress fundamental baseball and winning without depending on steroid-fueled homeruns and fixes its deficiencies in hitting and pitching. It's about time we Cub fans start to demand success and stop helping the team make excuses for blowing it year after year. I've been happy to see half-empty bleachers at Wrigley Field in the waning days of this horrendous season.

SONG OF THE MOMENT:
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
I know it's over-played, but I came to the realization yesterday that for me, this song is the new "Hey Ya." No matter how many times I hear it, I don't get sick of it.

p.s.: I opened that letter I wrote to myself 5 year ago. Pretty interesting reading. I haven't been able to post it yet, because of computer problems, but I will when I get a chance.

Posted by dpetrella at September 14, 2006 9:42 AM | TrackBack
Comments

I can't get that damn song out of my head. Hey-ya F'real.

Posted by: Konkey at September 14, 2006 11:18 AM

i've been saying that about crazy for months. raconteurs cover of it was pretty sweet.

check out obadiah parker's cover of hey ya - http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ioKEDgnfs8

http://www.myspace.com/obadiahparker - more info on their myspace

Posted by: holler at September 14, 2006 11:40 AM

If I told you that i had a product like this:

1.) One brand of many
2.) Very old brand, and distictive
3.) You've been using only this brand your whole life
4.) One of the most expensive of its kind (ticket prices), but has never been a superior brand
5.) Completely disfunctional and breaks more often than any other brand of its type
6.) Another brand is produced locally for cheaper, and for the past century has produced a higher quality product, but the stores that carry it are in shady neighborhoods.
7.) You are disappointed in the product every time you buy it, yet you continue to buy it hoping that next time it will be better.
8.) You blame all the shortcomings of the brand on a rumor that the factory it's produced in is haunted.
9.) No matter what happens, no matter how often it lets you down, you will never buy a different brand.

You'd say i was crazy. I guess we are.

anyway, in order for the cubs to win they also need to have a movie about them losing all the time based on a nick hornby novel, even if in the novel they lose.

Posted by: mallio at September 14, 2006 1:01 PM

or maybe a d.f.petrella novel? november is national novel writing month...

Posted by: holler at September 14, 2006 1:51 PM
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