Monday, October 26, 2009
kaylan wants to know
in what ways do you watch the news. tv. newspaper, online. what is the best source for this information
essay two reviews some history of the chicago cubs.
The Chicago cubs and 100 years of bad baseball.
It has been over 100 years since the Chicago cubs have raised the golden trophy and hailed the words of victory. It forces you to think about the two sided story. The unsatisfied fans and the rich owner who appreciates those fans, the fans hate the fact that the team losses but the owner makes millions. Baseball is a business first then a sport and until the cubs change they will be cursed. The World Series has not been far out of reach from Chicago fans just cursed. The team strapped on a seatbelt to what will become known as the worst championship slump in sports history over 100 years ago. If they had any idea it would go on for this long the city probably would have sold the team. The Cubs’ history is one filled with stories of hall of fame players making plays no one has ever imagined but never reeling in the big one and making history the right way. The celebration was just moments away many of a time and collapse after collapse after collapse stopped fans from celebrating that one special victory. But the same team would take the field year after year and the owner couldn’t have cared that much.
How many times can a cohesive unit fail at what they were put together to do. Will a factory hold on to a machine that produced bad parts, of course not. At times the cubs played together like the brick wall in the Wrigley outfield, but in the most memorable moments they failed to put it together. They say it was a long history of curses. Like in 1969 with a 9 ½ game lead over the New York Mets the cubs looked like they were on their way to the big game. It was only three weeks left in the season and there was no way this one was going to be ruined. In a day game with runners on base a black cat appears out of nowhere and runs onto the field of play leaving fans excited. Until three weeks later the cubs lost first play and missed the playoffs, now the black cat was another curse sent by the baseball gods to derail the Chicago franchise from victory. Then in 1945 twenty five years before the black cat, a man named Willy Sianis attempted to watch a game with his goat. The goat was fine until it began to smell in the later innings, so the cubs owner threw out will and his goat. A bad move for Chicago’s history, Willy quickly cursed the franchise and told them they will never win the big one. It hasn’t happened yet and his words still hunt cubs’ fans today.
The most recent news of a Chicago meltdown came in 2003 in the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins. The cubs were once again a couple of outs away from celebrating the big victory and dousing champagne on the way to the World Series. Then in the later innings a foul ball was hit into the stands and cubs left fielder Moises Alou reached for the ball and was robbed by home town fan Steve Bartman. Steve reached for the ball at the same time as Moises and helped him miss the catch. Cub’s fans were heartbroken and couldn’t believe what happened so they began throwing things at Steve Bartman and knew the curse was back again to take their dreams away. Error after error followed the big fan play and the cubs lost the lead, the game, and the series. Before the catch they had the lead in all three categories and were on their way to sweet victory. How does this keep happening to the same team over and over? Even the players leave the team but the curse is stuck with them for life.
Let’s research Bill Buckner the great first baseman that lost it all on one routine ground ball. How can he leave the team but still carry the curse. He was playing in the World Series at the time with the Boston Red sox but does anyone remember Bills first team. Bill Buckner was a former cub and a good one, he left the team in search of a championship and to rid his career of this curse, well he didn’t do a job of anything. In 1986 at the World Series bill made the worst play in baseball history, he let a fundamental play go crazy. What was discovered after the horrific play was that bill still was wearing his cubs batting gloves from the previous years. He said it was good luck, when he left the cubs he should have left the glove and the curse behind. The curse followed him forever swallowing anything he did great and people will only notice one thing about him, all that practice and hall of fame players still make kiddy mistakes. The cubs are responsible for too much bad baseball.
Besides the bad facts and the curses the Chicago cubs are responsible for having the most memorable franchise in sports history. Are they popular because of the curse or the love of the city and fans? It’s the good and the evil combined that helped the cubs be a hard team to forget plus they provided some of the best shows on the field. From Ryan Sandberg to Sammy Sosa they have been giving the North Side a show to remember year in and year out. They should remind fans of the bad news bears, a movie about a group of children unready for the field of play and seemingly they find motivation to triumph to victory as a team. What the Chicago fans needs is a new faith; they must forget the curse and start a new course to victory. The curse is an excuse for plays blown under pressure and seasons blown when the team is lax and unsteady. The owners are going to make a fortune because they can put a promise out on the field every year. One they cannot keep or promise to happen, to win, to be victorious is up to one’s self.
It has been over 100 years since the Chicago cubs have raised the golden trophy and hailed the words of victory. It forces you to think about the two sided story. The unsatisfied fans and the rich owner who appreciates those fans, the fans hate the fact that the team losses but the owner makes millions. Baseball is a business first then a sport and until the cubs change they will be cursed. The World Series has not been far out of reach from Chicago fans just cursed. The team strapped on a seatbelt to what will become known as the worst championship slump in sports history over 100 years ago. If they had any idea it would go on for this long the city probably would have sold the team. The Cubs’ history is one filled with stories of hall of fame players making plays no one has ever imagined but never reeling in the big one and making history the right way. The celebration was just moments away many of a time and collapse after collapse after collapse stopped fans from celebrating that one special victory. But the same team would take the field year after year and the owner couldn’t have cared that much.
How many times can a cohesive unit fail at what they were put together to do. Will a factory hold on to a machine that produced bad parts, of course not. At times the cubs played together like the brick wall in the Wrigley outfield, but in the most memorable moments they failed to put it together. They say it was a long history of curses. Like in 1969 with a 9 ½ game lead over the New York Mets the cubs looked like they were on their way to the big game. It was only three weeks left in the season and there was no way this one was going to be ruined. In a day game with runners on base a black cat appears out of nowhere and runs onto the field of play leaving fans excited. Until three weeks later the cubs lost first play and missed the playoffs, now the black cat was another curse sent by the baseball gods to derail the Chicago franchise from victory. Then in 1945 twenty five years before the black cat, a man named Willy Sianis attempted to watch a game with his goat. The goat was fine until it began to smell in the later innings, so the cubs owner threw out will and his goat. A bad move for Chicago’s history, Willy quickly cursed the franchise and told them they will never win the big one. It hasn’t happened yet and his words still hunt cubs’ fans today.
The most recent news of a Chicago meltdown came in 2003 in the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins. The cubs were once again a couple of outs away from celebrating the big victory and dousing champagne on the way to the World Series. Then in the later innings a foul ball was hit into the stands and cubs left fielder Moises Alou reached for the ball and was robbed by home town fan Steve Bartman. Steve reached for the ball at the same time as Moises and helped him miss the catch. Cub’s fans were heartbroken and couldn’t believe what happened so they began throwing things at Steve Bartman and knew the curse was back again to take their dreams away. Error after error followed the big fan play and the cubs lost the lead, the game, and the series. Before the catch they had the lead in all three categories and were on their way to sweet victory. How does this keep happening to the same team over and over? Even the players leave the team but the curse is stuck with them for life.
Let’s research Bill Buckner the great first baseman that lost it all on one routine ground ball. How can he leave the team but still carry the curse. He was playing in the World Series at the time with the Boston Red sox but does anyone remember Bills first team. Bill Buckner was a former cub and a good one, he left the team in search of a championship and to rid his career of this curse, well he didn’t do a job of anything. In 1986 at the World Series bill made the worst play in baseball history, he let a fundamental play go crazy. What was discovered after the horrific play was that bill still was wearing his cubs batting gloves from the previous years. He said it was good luck, when he left the cubs he should have left the glove and the curse behind. The curse followed him forever swallowing anything he did great and people will only notice one thing about him, all that practice and hall of fame players still make kiddy mistakes. The cubs are responsible for too much bad baseball.
Besides the bad facts and the curses the Chicago cubs are responsible for having the most memorable franchise in sports history. Are they popular because of the curse or the love of the city and fans? It’s the good and the evil combined that helped the cubs be a hard team to forget plus they provided some of the best shows on the field. From Ryan Sandberg to Sammy Sosa they have been giving the North Side a show to remember year in and year out. They should remind fans of the bad news bears, a movie about a group of children unready for the field of play and seemingly they find motivation to triumph to victory as a team. What the Chicago fans needs is a new faith; they must forget the curse and start a new course to victory. The curse is an excuse for plays blown under pressure and seasons blown when the team is lax and unsteady. The owners are going to make a fortune because they can put a promise out on the field every year. One they cannot keep or promise to happen, to win, to be victorious is up to one’s self.
english 102
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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