Sports Zen

I promise that I'll get up a non-sports-related post up here sometime tomorrow.
That's tomorrow; now more sports crap.

I'm good... calm... relaxed. Seriously. Yeah, I know that the Cubs are down one in the playoffs, and I know the Bears are sucking with the ferocity of an imploded star, but I'm perfectly at ease. I'm not a religious man; I have reserved all of my faith for Chicago sports.
If a Catholic can stick with the church through multiple endemic child-molestation scandals without abandoning the institution, why can't I believe that the Bears are gonna turn this season around? Because it's not rational? Faith itself is the willful abandonment of reason. Suspension of disbelief is what allows a reader to enjoy fiction, and lets me believe that the Cubs will be the 2007 World Series champions. I'm fine with that.

It may have been the series of cerebral aneurysms I had last week when the Bears allowed 34 points in the 4th quarter against the Lions, or the stroke I suffered last night after Lou pulled Zambrano early and Marmol allowed a lead-off home-run in the 8th, but a wave of calm has washed over me. ...and now (for some reason) I can taste "purple".
I believe that the Cubbies will be able to overcome the D-Bags to advance, and I believe that the Bears are gonna turn it around and finish with a winning record.
That's not naive - That's faith.

Rexional Dysfunction

Grossman, you're cut!

Wrecks just joined Steve Bartman, the 1919 White Sox, and Billy Sianis among Chicago's most hated sports-related figures - with very good reason.
The Cowpokes' undrafted QB (from EIEIU) floated like a butterfly and stung like an upturned hornet nest (yes, I'm mixing sports metaphors and drinks). Our 1st round "savior" moved like continental drift and the only "sting" Rex dolled out was the minor-aneurysm I experienced after his 3rd pick of the evening - It was a fucking embarrassment.If I see that dirty twat on the street, I'm going to town on Mr. Cousin-Fucking-Idjit with a Deer-E-Ere and a big bag of rock-salt.
I'm one of his more lenient critics. The guy is poison to Chicago sports fandom - I said the same thing right after the Superbowl, but now everyone else seems to be on the same page.
Grossie has all of the staying power in Chicago as an Evanston junior-high chess-club member has in Abu Ghraib.

What now? Well, we signed a 5 year contract with Griesse for such an occasion - That's a quick-fix. I say we go after an experienced QB -- I still favor Jake Plummer -- to mentor Orton, and (eventually) a new rookie QB that someday will be our next Larry Rakestraw... um...
We're screwed.

Woo-Hoo

Just found out that the Fox Network 4PM game out here in DC is the Bears season opener. I am blessed.

Now we just have to get the Honeybears back so that we can win another Superbowl. Ed, you work on that.
Go Bears!!!