The Chicago Cubs Baseball Club has always been considered somewhat of a lovable laughingstock around Chicago. Consequently, although the club’s swoon in this past baseball season’s National League Wild Card playoff race did not sit particularly well with Cubs fans, it was at least expected.
But according to this scathing Jay Mariotti Chicago Sun-Times article, the legendary incompetence of Cubs management may have risen to heretofore unforseen levels. Consider this snippet:
We understand the Cubs have a feeble, hapless Charlie Brown existence. We know they’re battling farm animals, perpetual paranoia and turtleneck-choked fans. But if they’re also so internally incompetent that they employ an unlicensed head trainer, who was ratted out by the assistant trainer just months after they fired the previous head trainer, then riddle me this, Ronnie Woo-Woo:
How are they supposed to win a World Series in our lifetime? When management is appointing alleged quacks to heal injuries on a team that lost Mark Prior, Kerry Wood and too many other players to the most mysterious disabled list I’ve seen in sports — remember the sneeze that toppled Sammy Sosa? — isn’t it time to dismiss the cause as hopeless and move on to junk bonds as a hobby?