Since it has only been a hundred years or so since they won anything:
- The Chicago Cubs' 101-loss season is over, and it definitely was one for the books.
In a post-mortem in the media room known as the “dungeon” Thursday, baseball president Theo Epstein conceded the Cubs “buried ourselves right out of the chute and didn’t have the talent to overcome that.” - “There’s no getting around the fact that as far as the ultimate return on investment for the fans’ dollar, which is seeing a winning team, they going to get better value down the road than they’re getting right now,” he said. “It’s our job to make sure the debt value, and experience of watching a baseball team down the stretch and into October and celebrating with that team is priceless, and that’s ultimately how we can reward the fans’ support.”
Wow. That's some unmitigated bullshit all right.
How about trying this on for size northsiders - stop going to games. Stop buying Cubs stuff. Spend your money somewhere else. When the Blackhawks sucked, and they sucked for a long time under Old Man Wirtz, a lot of people stopped going to games, refusing to spend top dollar on a half-assed product. Wirtz had to die and leave the team to his son for them to turn it around, win a Stanley Cup and make the tickets worth something again.
The Bears spent some god-awful years in the wilderness before fielding a decent product and history appears to be repeating itself over by the lake. The Bulls, too. The Sox seem to defy conventional wisdom for some reason - can't quite figure that one out.