Thursday, July 8, 2010

Also a Way of Life: [L]oving Your Captors

From Wikipedia: In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. (courtesy of CubsMagicNumber)

Also a Way of Life: [L]osing Everything

This one's courtesy of Tim from Tales from Aisle 424. If you're willing to bet it all that some day your luck will turn around, you're living the Wrigley Way of Life.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Yet Another Way: [L]eBron James

You don't have to be a champion to want everyone to love you.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Also a Way of Life: Gluttony

Cubs fans are gluttons for punishment . . . and complex carbohydrates.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Also a Way of Life: Meth Addiction

This really is the best marketing slogan ever.
Here it is, the first in a series of things besides being a Cubs fan that can also be considered A Way of Life. And to think someone considered "A Way of Life" to be a good thing. . . .

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Cubs Facts that Don't Make Me Angry

On any given day, the Cubs have a really solid chance of winning, even if it's against the Pirates.

Pat Hughes is the best radio play-by-play man I've ever listened to on a daily basis.

Watching the Cubs lose in a hopeless summer is still better than the hopeful baseball-free winters.

There are an awful lot of Cubs fans that I like an awful lot.

Alfonso Soriano is no longer painful to watch.

The next heartbreaking playoff loss appears to be quite a ways off.

Ticket prices are going down like . . . well, like the Cubs.

Starlin Castro is still in the majors.

Tyler Colvin can hit.

The pitching has been pretty good this year, and I've always felt that bad pitching is much more frustrating to watch than bad offense.

Whether Tom Ricketts wants to run this team as a fan or as a businessman, he's going to have to put a better product on the field to be happy.

I really like the calzones at Wrigley.

However awful the walk-up music is, I haven't heard any Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber yet.

Even if they did, a little "Party in the U.S.A." never hurt anybody.

Most people won't admit it, but Carlos Zambrano spoke for all of us.

I'm pretty sure I have a fear of success, and the Cubs have been very understanding in that regard.

The fire sale is inevitable. And who doesn't love a sale?