Cubs swept, fans upset

Last night the Cubs lost to the Dodgers by the score of 3-1. The Cubs had very high expectations going into the playoffs this year and many Cubs fans, including me are very upset with them for blowing another one. They've almost become an embaressment.

I think I am speaking for many Cubs fans when I say that this failure needs to stop ASAP, which is next year. I have not been through as many of the failures that many have been through, but I can tell you that I have already had enough. I witnessed 2003, 2007, and now 2008, and other years that they got so close and couldn't get there and I cannot take it. The Cubs need to wake up and realize what they're doing wrong.

Lou Pinella said after the game that if the Cubs continue to only score six runs in a three game series that it will be another 100 years until they actually win the world series, and I agree. Chicago has had enough of this, and it needs to stop.

Players like Alfonso Soriano, who are leaders throughout the regular season and then choke in the playoffs, need to step it up. It is unbelieveable that a player can choke that much in the playoffs after years of playoff experience. Soriano went 1 for 14 in this years playoffs, meaning he's only had a few hits in the last two years in the playoffs. Soriano check swung to end the game last night and send the Cubs into hibernation, thinking about what time their golf game for the next day is.

But, it wasn't only Soriano that cost the Cubs. Fukudome struggled practically the entire second half of the season, and he was supposed to help turn this franchise around. Ryan Dempster showed us that he fails when under pressure, again. A-Ram did not come up clutch like he usually does, same with DeRosa. The entire infield looked horrible throughout the series. My point is, there were many players on the Cubs that cost them this series. One didn't choke, two didn't choke, they all choked.

To dampen Cubs fans spirits a little more, the Brewers beat the Phillies last night, meaning that Milwaukee made it farther than the Cubbies in the playoffs, and has now won more playoff games than Chicago's north side team since 2003.

On a bright note, theree is always next year. Cubs fans, stay loyal, even when frusterated, remember:

"We are one with the Cubs, with the Cubs we're in love. Yeah hold our heads high as the underdogs.

We are not fairweather but farweather fans, we are like brothers in arms in the streets and the stands.

There's magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard. The same one I stared at as a kid keeping score.

A world full of greed I could never want more. Someday we'll go all the way."

-Eddie Vedder's "All the Way"