Well sports fans, it's the end of the Baseball season in Chicago and this year was a dismal one. My beloved Cubbies couldn't even make it into the post season this year. In fact, they looked like a completely different team this year as opposed to the last two years when they easily reached the playoffs and clinched the National League without so much as batting an eye. Who's to blame? Where do you start is a better question. This was the final year of Mark DeRosa's contract, but the Cubs organization thought it was a better idea to trade him to the Cardinals, on of the Cubs biggest NL Central rivals. I don't know about you, but when my baseball team reaches post season two years in a row, I don't get rid of one of my best players when the team actually has enough talent to win a World Series. The really sad thing is that now the Cubs are scrambling to get him back, but now that other teams have seen what am amazing player he is, he is going to be getting a lot of offers from teams with a lot more money. Milton Bradley also fucked the Cubs this year. He didn't live up to his last season numbers, and had consistent attitude problems that led to far too many strikeouts, and a late season suspension. He's only a little worse than Alfonso Soriano, who can never seem to get any kind of consistency going and routinely commits errors in the outfield. Hopefully Bobby Scales, and Jake Fox are able to work their way into the line up next year, since they've shown they can actually produce in game situations. Not to mention the problems with the Cubs relief pitchers, who can't seem to throw decent pitches to save their lives.

Thankfully however, when the Baseball season in Chicago ends, the Football season is just getting underway, and so far the Bears have surpassed all my expectations. When I first heard that Kyle Orton was traded along with two draft picks to the Denver Broncos for Jay Cutler, the first thing that popped into my head was a line from the episode of South Park where Stan meets Jay Cutler and says, "Hey you're Jay Cutler! My dad says you suck but that maybe one day you'd be okay." This seemed to resonate with Jay Cutler's actual performance accurately. I was astonished that after Kyle Orton gave the Bears a winning season last year that he was traded, especially since he was just starting to sync with his receivers and develop a competent offense. But, so far Jay Cutler has been disproving my grave expectations. Even though he lost the first game of the season, he won the next two games, and in the game against Detroit they're playing right now, the Bears have matched the Lions touchdown for touchdown and are eager to extend their win streak to three. Getting back to the game now, hopefully they'll be 3-1 next time I post.