The Chicago Cubs Try it Again

The Chicago Cubs have suddenly shown that they may have an actual desire to hold onto the World Series Trophy like the team on the South Side of the city with the signing of Alfonso Soriano. Normally it seems like the Cubs are content with putting, at best, a mediocre team on the field mostly because the legions of blinded Cubs fans still sell out every home game no matter how far in the basement the team is. When you can put a bunch of trained weasels on the field doing back-flips and sell out ever ticket why on earth would you want to spend the money to get some decent players?

A few things seem to have converged to push the Cubs into this decision. The Tribune Company, which owns the team, has been having a lot of financial trouble as of late. They have been selling things off left and right. Many people have been guessing that the Cubs would be on the auction block. This may not be a bad thing. Getting the team out of the hands of a soulless corporation that just looks at numbers in maybe into one or two or a group of people who are actual baseball fans could make the team much better.

Getting a high-powered and big-name player like Soriano probably greatly increases the asking-price for a Chicago Cubs baseball team. If you were a company looking to make an even bigger score by selling off your hottest property why not get at least one really big name on the list, right? One thing's for sure, only the Cubs could do anything that would knock the Chicago Bears off of the front-page of the local Chicago newspapers.

There are legions of Cubs fans here. I don't think it's something anyone else in any other city can really understand. Sure, Boston Red Sox fans like to think they had a hard time with a team that couldn't win a World Series. The thing about the Cub is that they haven't even BEEN to a World Series since 1945. At least the Red Sox got the invitation and got into the dance a few times.