It's never pretty in heartbreak city

For you non-sports fans out there, the Cubs are a story about eternal hope, or what Johnny Carson, in reference to remarrying the same woman you divorced, called 'The triumph of hope over experience.'

And I just so happen to have reason to believe in hope again. (Note: not faith. See Adams, Douglas.)

Unfortunately, the columnist below is right. 'Karmatically' (Karmarically, like grammarically?) the Cubs have no shot. With a visual of 10 nearly identical sunrises, an old favorite ad for an investment bank gave the mandatory legal line: 'Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

But what else is there?'

Or to put it in the same way as the t-shirts round 'Rigley: The Cubs. Anyone can have a bad century.

It's never pretty in heartbreak city: "Once again, the Cubs will fall short. It is karmatically impossible for this team to win a pennant when so many people are expecting it. Sox fans will laugh, everyone will hibernate for the winter, and we'll all be back this time next year performing the same, quintessentially Chicagoan ritual."