THERE'S ONLY ONE

I was so glad when some washed up/never was much Cub named Daryl Ward hit a three-run home run in the top of the 9th inning to win the game for the Chicago team on Friday. What? I thought you were a Cardinal fan. Oh, I am, and always will be.

But you see, in the Year of the Cubby Bear, they're getting all the breaks in the world. That's the way it is with winning teams. Barring a collosal Cubby break down, and it could still happen, they are going to the NL playoffs this year. That saddens me. But sooner or later they will run out of SuperMen. It always happens.

So my logic is, let them get their breaks now in the regular season. When the Playoffs begin, hopefully they'll dry up. They'll look around, they'll expect them to be there. And they won't. They'll find no more SuperMen, so they'll try to be the heroes, press too hard and fall on their Baby Bear faces.

Foolish? Wishful? Perhaps the second. But don't forget these Cubs were swept in the first round of the Playoffs last season by the AZ Diamondbacks. Let them be super now, rather than later.