The best thing about the Chicago media is how predictably lame they are.

We all knew last night, after seeing the previously woeful Tampa Bay Rays win the American League pennant, that our friends at the newspapers would spin it as more indignity for the Cubs.

The Rays are just another team added to the list of clubs that didn’t exist when the Cubs last went to a World Series who have gone themselves.

The complete list is now Tampa Bay, Colorado, Arizona, Toronto, Minnesota, Kansas City, Anaheim (LA, whatever), Florida, New York Mets, Milwaukee and Houston.

When I thought of that I couldn’t get out of bed I was so depressed.  It’s just so….WHO CARES?

Honestly, does anybody give a rat’s ass?  The Cubs aren’t in the World Series, again.  Who does make it is irrelevant (well, I mean it sucks when it’s the Cardinals or White Sox but other than that, big whup.)

If the Rays had lost game seven, they’d be remembered for one of the all-time collapses in sports history.  They had a seven run lead with two outs in the seventh in a deciding game five and they lost.  Then they lost game six at home.  Another loss, and this incredible turnaround from the worst record in baseball last year (and never a winning season in their history) to 97 wins, and an AL East title would have been pushed aside.

The Cubs drag 100 years of suck around with them, Tampa was only dragging a tenth of that, and yet I found myself hoping they could avoid it.  Maybe I’m just tired of the Red Sox, I don’t know.  It’s not often I feel pity for anything, but I was really hoping the Rays would avoid that fate.

And, thanks to Matt Garza and the incredible David Price they did just that.