Pitting the unpittable: Or, Cecil admit your mistake here.

The BBQ Pit
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In this thread and post, Cecil chose to end yet another of his long-term posting sabbaticals by taking a potshot at the Cubs by saying:

Well dear Cecil, with 1 week left the Cubs are 1/2 game out of first in the Central and 1 1/2 games out of the wildcard with favorable scheduling. Tanking? Hardly. This team that was so bad last year is now in contention for a playoff spot and has a pretty decent shot at making it.

Yes, based on past history the Cubs could have been expected to tank, but they have shown a steely resolve and, other than still sending out Shawn Estes to pitch, have shown a remarkable ability to hang in the thick of the pennant race.

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…or: Cecil, please notice me and make me a board-celeb by posting in my thread!

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If you shoot at the king, you’d better kill him.

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But the Cubs were tanking in early August. Just because they rallied back to near-contention doesn’t negate the validity of his statement.

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A pitiful pitting of the unpittable. Aint it the pitts?

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In defense of the master (not that he needs my help), the Cubs generally play like…the Cubs.

unclviny

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Hmmm… Which side to take in this conflict? On the one hand we have Cecil Adams, perfect master. On the other hand, we have… the Cubs. Have they ever let us down in the past? No chance they’d choke at the last minute and blow it, is there?

Yeah, definitely a tough choice.

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But… Uh…I. Don’t. Think. That. Was. Cecil…

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You get to be a board celebrity if Cecil posts here?

Hmmm, what do I get for Cecil answering me in publication? Besides a kick in the butt that is?

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I’ve heard that the Official Motto of the Cub Fan is “98% Scar Tissue”

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I don’t really see what the problem was. He said “right now” which to me doesn’t imply the future, and the cubs did “tank”. Personally, I think they’ll “tank” again, but that could just be me.

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Generally speaking, it’s safer to accuse the Cubs of tanking than not. My mother is a lifetime Cubs fan. She’s seen them get to the playoffs and tank so fast it would make your head spin. Other than that, she lives for next year. Like every other Cubs fan.

I figure it’s a new century so maybe they’re due for another win. But I’m still not going to call Cecil wrong for suggesting it won’t be this year!

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Given the fact that the Red Sox are going to the playoffs this year, we all better hope that both they and the Cubbies tank at some point. (A pretty sure bet, I know.)

If those two teams actually meet in the World Series, it would mean the destruction of life as we know it. Since we know that it is inconceivable that either team will ever win another Championship, it would be an utter certainty that an asteroid would hit the Earth to prevent this from happening.

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Plowboys should NOT draw on number one guns, man.

This can’t end well.

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Perhaps they could achieve an equilibrium with a game seven that goes into infinite extra innings.

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On Sunday I sat in my hammock and watched the Bengals tank. That doesn’t mean that in 4 months I won’t be watching them win the SuperBowl. It just means that at the time I wrote the statement, they were tanking.

L-

(We’re talking in theory here, okay?)

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Cecil has posted in my threads before without much notice. In fact, I think he killed one of them if I’m not terribly mistaken. I’ll try to find a link later when the boards aren’t so slow.

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Surely, nothing or no one can “tank” unless they first start from a state higher than that which they now occupy… IN the case of the bungles, they can’[t tank. :eek:

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I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around the idea of a World Series between the Cubs and the Red Sox.
Not in this dimension of the universe, anyway.

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Just out of curiosity, ** Mullinator**, do you prefer “Asshat” or “2Stupid2Live” as a member status? I AM Cecil’s own Angel of Death, you know, and should he deign to notice you, I must be prepared.