"These are my principles and if you don't like them I have others." Groucho Marx
Thursday, August 11, 2011
We won't get fooled again
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the Cubs seem to be making a late season run long after the games have become meaningless. They’ve won nine of their last 11 games and have started to look like something other than a horrendous team. That being said, let’s home Cubs owner Tom Ricketts doesn’t get too giddy and this recent string of respectability.
Maybe it’s the pressure being off and the expectations of contention slowly but surely evaporating. Maybe it’s the inevitability that every team going on a decent run of solid baseball at some point the long grind of 162 games. At some point, the line drive outs turn into hits and the bloop singles begin to fall in. As is often the case, players start to reach those famous “back of the baseball card” numbers” despite how bad they looked in the cold days of April.
Regardless of the elusive reasoning, Cubs fans have to hope that Tom Ricketts has learned the lesson of last summer. As you may recall, the Cubs owner and General Manager seemingly got carried away with the solid late season play under interim manager Mike Quade last year. They retained Quade and made minimal and unimpressive moves during the offseason. They made the mistake of overvaluing the strength of their manager and players once the season was already lost. Time will only tell whether the organization makes the same error again.
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