The Fascination Over the Lovable Losers Is A Little Odd

The national media is atwitter. Local columnists are using tremendous amount of ink to point that the home side is headed to the World Series. The fans are delirious.

Only problem is, your team is 10.5 games out of the division lead and recently got beat like a red-headed step child in a few recent tilts against the guy ahead. Such is the life of the Chicago Cubs.

Let's refute some Scrub arguments, shall we? I'll do one of these a day for the week.

1) Once Our Pitching Comes Back, We'll Roll into the Wild Card and/or World Series Let's forget for a moment that the reason the Cubbies lost the NLCS last year was less the dude with the turtleneck and headphones and more the guy with the big calves on the mound. The best argument against the Scrubs is on Wall Street: Past Mark Prior and Kerry Wood results don't predict future success.

Huh? Let me tell you, it's not coincidence that Michael Lewis wrote about the machinations of bond traders and ballplayers. High finance and baseball use a similar toolkit -- stats -- to pencil up a winning formula. Although General Managers, are, of course, playing with house money, there aren't any words of wisdom posted at stadium plazas for wayward General Managers. But Wall Street offers a few clues.

"Statements about the company's past performance are not necessarily indicative of its future results." "Past results do not predict future events." It goes something like that, in what's called the Safe Harbor provision, mandated from Congressional litigators' little 1996 election wet dream(US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Anyway, without getting too much off track, it's basically the US Congress warning you: What this company did last year, two months ago, YESTERDAY, doesn't mean they'll do it tomorrow, two months from now, or next year. So don't be a dumbass.

You can connect the dots. Don't be a dumb ass, Scrubby.

Tomorrow: Nomar, the vastly overrated savior.