Opening day

Today, my beloved Cubbies begin their annual 162 game exercise in futility. There are signs, however, that this year’s team may actually make a run. We have some pitching, a pretty solid defense, and a couple of big bats. On paper, this is as talented a team as Wrigley Field has seen in quite some time and it should go without saying (but won’t) that the last time the Cubs won the series was 1908. We have had a one hundred year drought. We are due.

Now, as any good Cubs fans knows, none of that matters. The Bartman/Gonzales disaster a few years back should remind everyone that the Billy Goat curse is still upon the North Side team.

But maybe, just maybe, this will be our year. That is why we watch.

And if the Cubs fall short in 2008, (all together now), There Is Always Next Year.