The Chicago Cubs swept the Pittsburgh Pirates last night, and I immediately did this drawing and thought it was funny.
Because it's ironic, right?
Isn't that irony?
Because on a short term memory scale, I as a Cub Fan have come to expect to lose to the Pirates.
While Pirate Fans think they totally have the Cubs number.
So it's ironic that the Cubs, 3/4 or so into this awful season, would sweep the surging Pirates, right?
I guess it gets a tad more complex when you think slightly more long term.
Like, wasn't it just a couple years ago we all thought we were pretty cool being attached to a winning franchise?
While the Pirates were bottom feeders, always in last place and with the cheapest payroll in baseball?
So you'd expect to beat the Pirates every year.
Like, if you're a good team you should always beat the teams you should beat and try to break even with the other really good teams and presto - you're in the playoffs.
If there was a list on the teams you should beat, the Pirates are the name at the top.
So this drawing kind of does a double twisty thing that... wait - maybe this is sarcasm.
Is that it?
These Pirate Fans, who always think of themselves as losers, and now think of themselves as winners...now they're mad because they lost to the...
Maybe it's just that in the bigger picture, the Cubs and Pirates switched places.
Winner/loser now loser/winner.
But then you can't help but think of the even bigger picture, which shows that there is no other team in any sport more associated with losing than the Cubs.
See, this is where I get really confused.
Sorry.
Nevermind.
Go about with your day now.
Maybe we're living in some altered state of evil irony that says that the Cubs can only sweep the Pirates on a day when the Dow drops more than 500 pts. AND Tiger Woods returns to golf only to see his fired caddie carrying the bag for the guy who's now in first place at the tournament that TW has won 7 times previously?!!!
I've often said that the "golf gods" have a cruel sense of humor (hey...let's give Bud a birdie and then a triple bogie on the next hole...bwahahaha!!!).
But what if the golf gods and the baseball gods and the stock market gods all got together in one place and decided that working in unison they can wreak hilarious havoc on the world? The world might go looney haywire...and THEN maybe Cubs might win the World Series???
Madness!!!
Posted by: Bud | August 05, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Nice ramble, Bud.
It is chaos right now, isnt it?
Posted by: Tim@Cubby Blue | August 05, 2011 at 11:51 AM
When you can't win it all, all you can do is troll...the Pirates.
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey, up is down, down is up.
Posted by: DB | August 05, 2011 at 04:49 PM
So glad you put that on here, DB.
Because seriously, I was kinda losing it when I tried to be rational about why that cartoon was funny.
Wibbly is precisely correct.
Posted by: Tim@Cubby Blue | August 05, 2011 at 08:57 PM