Two thing Chicago Cub fans have in common with Kansas City Royals fans
is long suffering and a better than above average chance to not only
make the World Series but win it. 2014 the Royals made it on the
strength of their pitching and this year combined with their improved
hitting as well as pitching it’s possible that the Royals make it back
to the World Series and their opponent could be the Chicago Cubs. Call
me crazy for this one but this team is far better than the Dusty Baker
led team in 2003. Full of veterans most of them coming over in mid
season trades but a far better pitching staff in ’03 than now. This
years team will not be able to rely on their pitching unless Jake
Arrieta pitches every game. But I am willing to go out on a limb and say
that the Cubs could very well not only make the 2015 World Series with
their band of rookies but win it because of said rookies. Now some of
these guys may be having the best years that they will ever have and
then turn into the Washington Nationals: plenty of hype and not much
else. The expectation is that this club will compete for years to come
and win multiple championships like the Boston Red Sox under Theo
Epstein. Unless Epstein is able to do what the Blackhawks have done and
maintain a solid core and add to it for the next several years then
expect the Nationals scenario to play out and for things to get ugly
quickly. Once the smell of a winner starts to pervade the north side of
Chicago you’re treated like liars if you cannot make it hold up. Not to
mention the influx of rats that have taken over the neighborhood with
the construction on the ball park. Some nest having been disturbed all
in the name of progress and of course money. It isn’t just the nature of
the Cubs that is being changed it is also the upgrade in housing
pricing people out of an already over priced part of town. But sports is
never a static situation. The Cubs will never be the Yankees without
enough fingers and toes to count their championships. The Cubs will
eventually as all teams do come up short somewhere and depending what
they’ve done up until then and if they cannot pick themselves up the
neighborhood will again become a ghost town. Though many have said that
if the Cubs do win it all it means the end of the world and all that
building will be for naught.
Some might say a K.C. V.S. Chicago world Series might be boring and only
seen by their faithfuls but you’d be watching two teams with fantastic
records but what will stand out the most to me is whether the souped up
pitching staff of the Cubs can handle the Royals hitters. And whether
the Cubs will have to out hit their own pitching to win. I propose that
if the Cubs are the road team in this scenario they have the edge with
Kyle Schwarber hitting dh. This kid has the hottest bat of of any of the
rookies on the Cubs. His loud shots will keep the Cubs in it and take
it to a game 7 if the pitching can hold on and once again Jake Arrietta
will have to pitch probably three of the games in the series. But you
heard it from me the Cubs can and possibly will make the World Series in
2015.
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