The G-D Cubs Won Again?! How The Hell Are They Doing This?!

CHICAGO, IL -- And the damn Cubs win again! I can't figure it out. Even though there are many positive to take from this most recent Cubs win:

1. The Cardinals are a half game closer to the Brewers
2. A demoralizing loss to the Cubs could send the Brewers into a tailspin
3. The Cubs are still the Cubs, so chances are they're going to blow all of this eventually).

I sat there and watched the game as Yovanny Gallardo was spotted a 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning off Rich Hill. Hill either is solid or gets hammered. Today was the latter.

The Cubs scratched a run back here and there, but it had to end somewhere. The ninth inning comes along and the Brewers bring in Francisco Cordero. Cordero's been automatic all year. No matter the opponent, who is up or whatever, Cordero is going to close it down.

Somehow, some way, I had this eerie feeling that Chicago was going to come back. I hate that feeling, especially since the Cubs are doomed for eternity anyway. A couple hits and soon they had first and third with one out and Derrek Lee at the plate. A home run could win the game, but Lee flew out to right field to score a run making the game 5-4.

Aramis Ramirez was up next. I had the feeling that Ramirez would knock one out. I wasn't sure how or where, but soon it wasn't a question any more. Ramirez took the first pitch and launched it to left field. I knew it was gone and so did almost 40,000 other fans at the corner or Sheffield and Addison.

Watching the ball sail into the bleachers and seeing all those Cubs fans going crazy and beer cups flying in the air everywhere, you would have thought the Cubs won the World Series. I have to admit, it did look really cool. My one year working for the Cubs, I have somewhat of an appreciation for the Cubs, but that quickly diminished when I started with the birds on the bat.

A walk-off home run for Ramirez and a come-from-behind win for the Cubs, who had now won seven in a row and move within 6.5 games of the first place Brewers. St. Louis is now 10 games back and can make it 9.5 with a win against Cincinnati tonight.

Cubs fans can take this one of two ways. They can be gracious and enjoy every moment of this and hope the momentum rides them as far as it can, playing as the underdog, or they can cock off and talk like they're the best and it's all coming around, that the talent has been there all the time and when Wood and Prior get healthy...

Well, I got news for you. I've known Cubs fans all my life and No. 2 always seems to prevail for them. They can't help being cocks. They don't know how to handle success, because most of them weren't alive the last time the Cubs made the World Series.

Even the Cardinals, who had been in the playoffs for the last three years and several since 1982, relished the underdog role in the playoffs and World Series and took it to every team that stood in the way.

Enjoy it while it lasts Cubs. Cardinal Nation thanks you for the win against the Brewers and hopes for two more this weekend so we'll have an inspiration to start winning.

In the meantime, I have to listen to "Here Comes the King" about 10 times to get Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go" out of my head.

Chasing the Cubs is motivation enough.