Cubs Amble Off to Desolate San Diego To Crawl Into a Hole and Die

On the heels of last night's epic Kevin Gregg collapse that saw the Cubs blow a 1-0 ninth inning lead with two outs only to lose 4-1 on a Kyle Blanks walkoff ****, Andy Dolan at Desipio.com has come up with the perfect metaphor to describe the recent Cubs collapse: There is a phenomenon in the animal world, particularly among dogs and elephants (of all things) where when they know they are going to die, they run away. It is as though they want to spare others the trauma of seeing them die, so they just amble off to find a place to do it peacefully and quietly. For a dog it might be a patch of woods or near an abandoned building. For an elephant it's probably anywhere south of the monkey cages. For the Cubs? It was San Diego. If you can't do it in Pissburgh where nobody will notice, you do it in San Diego where next to nobody will. It's sad, as Andy points out, since the Cubs and Cardinals were tied for first place in the NL Central just ten games ago and now ...