[eswan9]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

"Liberals are temperamentally inclined to see the world as a harmonious carnival of sweetness and light, where goodwill prevails, good intentions are rewarded, the race is to the swift and a benevolent Nature arranges a favorable balance of pleasure over pain. Conservatives (and Cub fans) know better.

Conservatives know the world is a dark and forbidding place where most new knowledge is false, most improvements are for the worse, the battle is not to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding and an unscrupulous Providence consigns innocents to suffering. I learned this early.

Out in central Illinois, where men are men and I am native, in 1948, at age seven, I made a mad, fateful blunder. I fell ankle over elbows in love with the Cubs. Barely advanced beyond the bib-and-cradle stage, I plighted my troth to a baseball team destined to dash the cup of life's joy from my lips.

Spring, Earth's renewal, a season of hope for the rest of mankind, became for me an experience comparable to being slapped around the mouth with a damp carp. Summer was like being bashed across the bridge of the nose with a crowbar -- ninety times. My youth was like one long rainy Monday in Bayonne, New Jersey..."

-George Will, THE CUBS AND CONSERVATISM

MD,

So true, and one of my FAVORITE George Will passages!

I don't post a lot, since I take a philisophical view to how things go in life and on this board, so I cannot say how this will go, but I never lose faith

Also, I am trying to come to a catharsis by living in San Diego, perhaps the last place for a Cubs fan to hang out

Anyway, we're 1-0, only 161 to go