Thursday, October 16, 2003
CUBS OUT, MARLINS IN. Of course this means no Cubs-Red Sox series for the ages. Jayson Stark doesn't care:
UPDATE: Stephen Green to Cubs fans: It is all for the best.
UPDATE: More advice for Cubs fans from Adam Smith (who, as I noted in one of my graduate courses a week or two ago, probably held his Theory of Moral Sentiments in higher esteem than the much more widely read The Wealth of Nations).
So the Florida Marlins are going to the World Series. They understand they've screwed up about a zillion romantic plot lines. They understand they're about the last team on earth that the poets, the historians and the ratings counters wanted to see show up at that World Series. But that's a problem only for the poets, the historians and the ratings counters.
Sometimes it's about baseball. And the best baseball team is the one still playing.
UPDATE: Stephen Green to Cubs fans: It is all for the best.
UPDATE: More advice for Cubs fans from Adam Smith (who, as I noted in one of my graduate courses a week or two ago, probably held his Theory of Moral Sentiments in higher esteem than the much more widely read The Wealth of Nations).
