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Mathematical Elimination Fever - CATCH IT!

Found September 29, 2009 on Thunder Matt's Saloon:
PLAYERS: Geovany Soto,  Jake Peavy,  Aaron Miles,  Kerry Wood,  Ryan Theriot,  Kevin Gregg,  Derrek Lee,  Milton Bradley
TEAMS: Chicago Cubs,  Chicago White Sox,  Cleveland Indians

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Well, that was fun, huh?You didn't have fun this season? Yeah, me neither.To be honest, I haven't watched a lot of Cubs baseball lately. For the same reason I don't hang around the oncology ward of my local hospital. Tending to the slow wasting away of a reasonably promising team is not my ideal plan to spend the fleeting Chicago summer.Which is not to say I didn't have nagging fears about this season. After compiling what was probably the best Cubs team of my lifetime in 2008, Hendry did so very little in the offseason. How was I to know that even the little he did was awful?I'm not going to go into detail about all the wretched ways the 2008 Cubs were dismantled (other than to say that I had no beef with getting rid of DeRosa, provided the Cubs received more than a bucket of goddamn baseballs - which they did not). I'm just going to make a quiet list of the things that annoyed me about this season, with the hope that a few of them could be rectified:The add...
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