It was a bleak and black Saturday with not only my beloved Cubs losing thier third and final game of the first round of playoffs, but even the #1 USC Trojans got a bitter taste of defeat from major rivals Stanford with a 25 to 24 loss that hurt big time.
Ok, so USC has to eventually fall, no one can be that good all the time. John David Booty’s 5 interceptions proved that even the best can have an off day, and now the question looms, where will USC be in the standings?
And the Cubs…those Cubs who fought so hard to get in the playoffs only to look like the mid-season bad Cubbies in the playoffs…they had no fight, no passion, no drive this time around…and I can’t imagine why. You knew last night with DeRosa at bat with bases loaded in the 5th, if they didnt make something happen, they were going to lose. And with the weak hit to the Diamondback 2nd baseman who got the double play to end the 5th, also ended the Cubs season. It was a sad way to end, but hey, Lou is still the manager and has turned this team around. There’s always next year…which will be sweeter if they win the World Series, cause then it will be the even 100 years since the World Series…But as Cubs fans know, we are loyal and we will be there through it all…they don’t call us Wrigley Faithful for nothing.
