August 7, 2008
The people at Bugs and Cranks are always talking smack about the Cubs. Generally speaking, it’s a combination of lack of reporting (they’re the best team in the National League and just completed a 4 game sweep of their next closest competition and you haven’t posted an article about them since July 28th??? Incidentally there have been 5 articles about the Brewers, 2 about the Cards and even a Rockies shout-out since then…) and generalized hating that plagues the site.  It makes me laugh more than anything because, well, you get to do a lot of laughing when you keep winning.  Anyway, today’s installment of B&C’s weekly MLB rankings really made me chuckle, specifically the comparison of the Cubs’ chances against the American League to his 6-year-old daughter’s softball team’s chances against Team USA softball.  Pretty funny, but it doesn’t really ring too true when the author then ranks the Cubs higher than 10 of the AL’s 14 teams.  Hmmm.  And since no one but Ron Gardenhire (who??? Exactly.) believes that the Twins are a better team than the Cubs, let’s make that 11 of 14 teams.  So, if we keep his analogy going, that’s like saying that his kids’ little league tee-ball team, although not better than the Americans, has a pretty good chance of knocking off most of the rest of the world’s Olympic teams… right?

The people at Bugs and Cranks are always talking smack about the Cubs.

Generally speaking, it’s a combination of lack of reporting (they’re the best team in the National League and just completed a 4 game sweep of their next closest competition and you haven’t posted an article about them since July 28th??? Incidentally there have been 5 articles about the Brewers, 2 about the Cards and even a Rockies shout-out since then…) and generalized hating that plagues the site.  It makes me laugh more than anything because, well, you get to do a lot of laughing when you keep winning. 

Anyway, today’s installment of B&C’s weekly MLB rankings really made me chuckle, specifically the comparison of the Cubs’ chances against the American League to his 6-year-old daughter’s softball team’s chances against Team USA softball.  Pretty funny, but it doesn’t really ring too true when the author then ranks the Cubs higher than 10 of the AL’s 14 teams.  Hmmm.  And since no one but Ron Gardenhire (who??? Exactly.) believes that the Twins are a better team than the Cubs, let’s make that 11 of 14 teams. 

So, if we keep his analogy going, that’s like saying that his kids’ little league tee-ball team, although not better than the Americans, has a pretty good chance of knocking off most of the rest of the world’s Olympic teams… right?