The Curse is Broken!!! (no, not that curse)

The Cubs have finally broken through and won one! The curse, the dreaded curse, the curse that has stood for multiple years, is finally broken! Smashed! Destroyed! Obliterated! Decimated! All on a Daryle Ward 3-run homer! Amazing! But, unfortunately, we still have to win a world series to break the actual curse. I was just talking about the curse of the Cubs in Florida. They had lost nine straight in Florida (including at the Rays in June) until Lou's favorite pinch-hitter ripped an 0-1 fastball into the seats. Our friend Paul Sullivan described him as smelling "like a brewery" during postgame interviews, due to his teammates' beer shower (combine weight, game-winning homer, and smelling like beer, and we've got ourselves another Prince Fielder).
But, why is it that it was so impossible for our Cubbies to beat the Marlins or the Rays? Probably bad luck. Every team has its hot and cold streaks, and the Cubs always played in Florida during a cold streak. Or maybe the Cubs decided to suck right then (betting scandal?). We may never know.

Monday Windy City Roundup

Cubs: Have the day off today. This week they are at Atlanta and Florida. Harden, Marquis and Lilly are going against Charlie Morton (3-5, 5.70 ERA), Jorge Campillo (7-4, 2.83) and Tom Glavine (2-3, 4.85). Morton looks like someone who could turn into a good pitcher (he's still a rookie). Campillo could probably be a 2nd or 3rd starter. He is 2-0 with a 3.38 ERA in 13.1 innings pitched during his two August starts versus the Brewers and Diamondbacks. He still looks like a pitcher that the Cubs can get to. We all know Tom Glavine. He hasn't made a start since June 10 versus the Cubs. He went three innings, surrendering 6 hits, 4 walks and 4 runs (all earned). They'll probably still be in first at weeks end.
Scott Eyre now joins Will Ohman as a Cubs lefty traded to the NL East in the past year. Hopefully this kid Schlitter can be a decent starter some day. So far he's thrown 2 shutout innings in Class A and given up only 2 hits.

Bears: I know it's still the preseason, but Caleb Hanie looks like a better QB than Ortman. That's really no surprise, because Ortman is terrible. But Hanie still won't win the starting job. For one he's a rookie undrafted free agent. Those things shouldn't count against him at all, but do with Lovie as coach.
So, to handicap the QB race that actually matters (no offense to Hanie). The "man" part of Ortman always plays his best in the preseason. And "Ort" always plays best in the regular season, so Lovie will make Grossman the starter. That's also because the Bears want Grossman to be the starter. They want the former first round pick to be good. They assume he will be good because Jerry Angelo was confident enough to use a first round pick on him. The same happened with Cedric Benson and Thomas Jones (or maybe Benson bought Angelo and Lovie a few drinks).
So Grossman will win, lose his job to Orton, get it back and lose it again, only to have a competiton next training camp.