Column originally published Oct. 5, 2005
CHICAGO - "Do they still play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls around?"
Steve Goodman asked that eternal question before his untimely death in 1984. He continued by asking "When the snow melts away, do the Cubbies still play in their ivy-covered burial ground?"
Well, yeah. At the end of the 2004 season, I wrote off the season as a minor disappointment en route to what was supposed to be a glorious 2005. I even predicted Aramis Ramirez's All-Star selection (though it was Derrek Lee who almost had the MVP season, not Ramirez). I thought it would be impossible for a similar series of injuries and rotten luck to strike the Cubs again in 2005.
Boy was I wrong.
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