DELUSIONAL CUBS FAN

How Sweep it is!

(So giddy I have to make stupid puns)

I am on top of the world! I’m sure you are too, because our nationally beloved Chicago Cubs have swept the universally despised Chicago White Sox. All is well in the Universe.

The Sox now cling to their 1 1/2 game lead in their division lead while the Cubs move 4 1/2 games above the almost as despised St. Louis Cardinals.

The Cubs are also 20 games above .500 again.

The Cubs have the best record in baseball. (still)

OH LIFE IS GOOD!

I, like many other Cubs fans will look forward to rubbing it in the faces of all White Sox fans we know, whether they are co-workers, friends or family(god help them). They of course will make excuses, say Wrigley field is a sh–hole, people there are just drunk, they’ll say the games don’t matter anyway, make some more excuses and finally it will come to them talking about Bartman and how the Sox won in 2005. But it won’t matter. Like the mighty DITKA said “History is for losers”.  We know it’s the worst thing that could possibly happen to a Sox fan.  We know that for 9/10 Sox fans, they would rather the Cubs lose a game to any team then have their own team win.  A loss to the Cubs is the biggest slap a Sox fan can suffer.

The Cubs sweep the Sox! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Photo by R.A.M.O.N.E.

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Wow! Despite another shakey base on balls filled performance from Jason “Don’t Even Think About Sending Me to the Bullpen or I’ll Demand a Trade” Marquis, the Chicago Cubs won their Ninth Game in a Row by defeating the San Diego Padres 9-6.

That puts the Chicago Cubs at 17 games above the 500 mark, still the best record in all of baseball!

Boy is this Fun!

The game highlights included home runs by Geovany Soto, Mark DeRosa and Alfonso Soriano, as well as some good old fashioned Cubs Bullpen Excitement. The Cubs bullpen (Kevin Hart tonight) have always known that no lead should be too secure because that wouldn’t be interesting. A win is a win in the record books though, I’ll take it!

The Cubs also pulled the double steal off on Michael Barret twice and stole two other bases from him. Lou Pinella had seen Barrett behind the plate for the Cubs in 2007 and must had savored the opportunity to run on him. You had to laugh, poor Barrett didn’t stand a chance.

Neither did the Padres.

GO CUBS!!!

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Moises Alou photo by Jared Kelly

Only a few months ago, Moises Alou proclaimed Bartman innocent, saying he never would have caught that foul ball in 2003 any way. It sent waves of shock across the Cubosphere. We wondered, had Cubdom overreacted in blaming Bartman for conspiring with an evil goat to curse the sacred ground of Wrigley Field and deny the Chicago Cubs a trip to he World Series?

Moises Alou had exhonorated Bartman. Suddenly Bartman wasn’t evil after all. We didn’t know what to think; we weren’t sure if we wanted it to be true. After all, this was part of the mythology of he Curse of the Cubs. It’s hard to let go.

Not so fast. This week Moises Alou has a different answer regarding that play he’s been asked about constantly for five years now.

“I had it” says Moises Alou in reference to that cursed foul ball, “I make that catch (and the playoffs are a) - different story.”

But hadn’t he just said in March “I wouldn’t have caught it anyway” to an AP reporter?

“I don’t remember that,” Alou says this week. “If I said that, I was probably joking to make (Bartman) feel better. But I don’t remember saying that.”

So Bartman, do you feel better now?

This poor guy. The Chicago Cubs franchise is cursed beyond the control of any one person. Being a Cubs fan means suffering. Years of suffering. Bartman had no control over his situation, the Curse needs the suffering of Cubs fans to survive. If fans don’t suffer, it will die. Bartman is a victim of the Cubs and their curse.

But wait, there’s still hope Steve. A hero has arrived from a far away land. The Cubs avenged their 2007 playoff loss against the Diamondbacks.

And the Cubs have won Nine in a Row.

Hang in there Bartman, the Cubs want to destroy this curse.

Go CUBS!

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Related:

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The Chicago Cubs beat the Padres in San Diego to win their 8th game in a row. Eight games in a row my friends!

With the Cubs playing so damn good it’s hard to feel like I’m being delusional. The Cubs have won eight in a row and have the best record in baseball. What’s delusional about feeling good about this team? It feels so strange and unfamiliar.

Carlos Zambrano got his eighth win. He pitched another great game without having his best stuff. Big Z learned from old dog Maddux that an ace pitcher wins even when he walks guys, gives up hits, puts men in scoring position and gives up an early lead. Great pitchers find a way to keep their teams in the game.

Great pitchers like Carlos Zambrano. He gets the win AND goes 3 for 3 with an RBI to drive his batting average up to .366!

Damn Carlos. He can do it all. The Delusional Cubs fan salutes you!

Kerry Wood also got his 15th save and is starting to look more and more like the man out there, throwing 95 plus consistently for strikes.

Stay Delusional!—–

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This is really starting to feel really good. As a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, I have not had the opportunity to bask in the glory of a good winning streak as often as I would have liked. So yeah, winning seven games in a row feels real good.

Even while I was on vacation in Michigan last weekend, I just had to find a radio to listen to the game because you can feel that something special is going on. Friday’s historic come from behind win by the Cubs just made me feel even more delusional.

The Cubs finished their homestand a perfect 7-0 by sweeping the Dodgers and the defending National League champion Rockies. They won all those games and looked good doing it. Good pitching, timely hitting, come from behind wins and all around solid play. This is the first time the Chicago Cubs have swept a seven game home stand since 1970, back when our pal Ron Santo was still patrolling 3rd base. That’s 38 years ago in case you’ve had to many Old Style Fan Cans to do the math. So please my friends, enjoy this streak while it lasts!

As good as that piece of trivia is, it’s nothing compared to this: The last time the Chicago Cubs had the best record in baseball was in 1908 - the last time they won the World Series.

Oh yeah. Feel that omen and love it. The baseball gods are shining on Chicago.

The Cubs are

And one more I forgot to mention: The Chicago Cubs have the best record in baseball right now.

Savor it my friends.

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The Kosuke Fukudome Bobblehead is now available! The first 10,00 fans in attendance at the May 27th game against the LA Dodgers got one for free!

Fukudome got two hits, a walk, a two our RBI and made a great catch on his big night.

Were you there? If not you can still pick on up on Ebay where dozens of people are selling theirs. I almost bought a ticket so I could get mine but I decided I’ve seen enough games on cold nights at Wrigley so I’ll be waiting to go in a couple of weeks when hopefully it will be over 50 degrees.

Pull out your Santate banners because the Chicago Cubs have swept the Arizona Diamondbacks!

I know it’s only May but the Cubs needed this. We needed revenge for getting knocked out of the playoffs last year by them. We needed the Cubbies to beat the team with the best record in the majors and show they were for real. They did it, did it decisively and showed they could come from behind to beat a real good team.

It felt good. Real good.

This is a preview of things to come.

I’m feeling good right now.  Go Cubs!

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Wow! As a Delusional Cubs Fan, I’m always on the lookout for data that will confirm my belief that “This is the Cubs Year“. Now we all have a new piece of data: The 2008 Chicago Cubs have set the franchise record for the most wins by the Cubs in April with 17.

This team is off to one of the hottest starts in the history of the Chicago Cubs. Call me delusional but I’m feeling good about this team. This team looks like….well, winners. They’re starting to do the things that good teams do: win one run games, win extra inning games, get timely hits, move the runner over, play aggressively, take walks, work the pitch counts, play solid defense at all positions, etc. This is not Cubs baseball. This is a team that has avoided taking walks like the plague for the past 20 years. This teams nucleus is the same one that stunk it up last April but you’d never know it.

The Cubs have padded out their lineup outside the core of Soriano, Lee and Ramirez by adding Reed Johnson, Kosuke Fukudome and Geovany Soto to the starting lineup. All of these guys are contributing big time. In fact some fans and writers think that these guys have influenced the rest of the lineup. Whatever it is, it’s working. DeRosa, Theriot and Cedeno - we haven’t forgotten about you contributions either. The whole starting lineup is contributing. This team looks built to win.

If feels damn good to have the Cubs get off to a great start.

GO CUBS!!!

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The Glorious Chicago Cubs Franchise has won it’s 10,000th game!

The Chicago Cubs are only the second MLB team to reach the 10,000 win milestone. The first team to reach 10,000 wins was the Giants (currently of San Francisco and formerly of New York) with 10,192 wins.

The Chicago Cubs franchise has more wins than the New York Yankees. What does this mean? IT MEANS THE CUBS ARE BETTER THAN THE YANKEES. Just count the wins.

The Yankees may have won more World Series but winning the World Series doesn’t mean anything. C’mon, the 2006 S. Louis Cardinals won it and they stunk. The Marlins won a couple and they can’t sell out games. I think the Diamondbacks won a world series but everyone I ask just looks at me and says”Who are the Diamondbacks?”.

Lots of teams have won the world series but only two have won 10,000 games and one of those teams are the Chicago Cubs. So if you put the Cubs and the Giants side by side, who’s the better team? Obviously it’s not the Giants who had Willie Mays and that steroid guy what’s his name and that’s it. The Cubs had Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Cap Anson, Stan Hack, Gabby Hartnett, Mordecai Brown, etc, etc, etc. The Cubs are better. The Chicago Cubs are the greatest baseball franchise of all time.

Back to Win number 10K for the Cubs. The Cubs needed 10 innings to get win number 10,000. The winning pitcher for victory number 10,000 was Kerry Wood who blew the save because he’d rather have the historic win. Carlos Marmol got the save but it’s the winning pitcher that everyone will remember. 10,000 wins, 10 innings, 100 years of waiting for the world series win. Notice all those one’s and Zeros?

Something is going on here. I think the evidence points to the fact that this is the Cubs year. A hero has risen from a far away land. A prophet speaks. Ronny Cedeno hit a grand slam. The Cubs lead the National League in on base percentage and pitches per at bat.

The signs continue to point to one thing: This is the Cubs year.

That or the apocalypse is nigh.

GO CUBS!!!

Photo by dvmthws23

Short answer:  Yes.  Long Answer follows:

As this great image created by fellow Cub fan Guano illustrates so well, Derrek Lee and the Chicago Cubs are on FIRE! Derrek is bashing the ball and off to one of his typical hot starts. What’s very encouraging is that unlike last season he has his power swing cooking this April. Last year he hit seven home runs the ENTIRE first half of the season. It’s gotta be the beard!

What’s got me feeling extra delusional right now is the way the Cubs are playing lately. Every game I say to whomever I’m watching the game with “Someone has replaced the Cubs with a real baseball team”. Seriously, they are NOT playing Cubs baseball. They’re playing GOOD baseball.

In tonight’s game for instance they loaded the bases with no outs at a point where it was critical they needed insurance runs. So what did they do? Mark DeRosa struck out. Geovany Soto popped out. Typical Cubs baseball, right? So that leaves it up to backup shortstop Ronny Cedeno. What does Cedeno do? He swings at the first pitch, low and outside and pops it up for the third out. BUT WAIT! No he didn’t. He saw several pitches, ran up the count, fouled off the “pitchers” pitches and waited for one that he could drive for solid base hit that drove in two runs.

This is yet another instance of the Cubs playing like a real team. They’re getting timely hits. They’re showing patience at the plate. They’re stealing. They’re bunting. They’re getting sacrifice flies. They’re advancing runners. They’re playing good defense. Everyone is contributing in the lineup and on the bench. WTF?! No really, what’s going on? Is this what happens when you listen to Lou Pinella’s Daily Affirmation?

Seriously though, they are playing good. I believe you can give the credit to Lou Pinella for getting rid of some excess baggage, installing the Cubbie Swagger and teaching this team how to win.

The more they win the more winning seems natural.

What’s going on here? I’m feeling Delusional and I’ve only had one Old Style Fan Can today.

Look for me on TV at tomorrows game. I’ll look just like I always do. My presence in the stands will get Ted Lilly finally pitching like our number two. Go CUBS!!!

Oh, I didn’t just pull this post title outta thin air, it was inspired by a story on mlb.com about how both teams in Chicago are off to quick first place starts. (Solid starts conjure all-Chicago dreams) I’m not actually delusional enough to think just because the Cubs are in first place in April means they’ll be in the world series in October. In fact I’m more inclined to believe the opposite. And I’m especially am not crazy enough to think they’d be playing the Sox.   Sorry Sox, you’re one and done.  But I will admit it would be my the fulfillment of my forefathers dreams to see the Cubs destroy you in the World Series.