If this was done in good nature... it's pretty funny.

If it was done seriously... it's pathetic. "Thanks for nothing"? I don't even think Philly fans would sink that low. No, wait, they would, but my point still stands.

I'd think you'd have to look into each Cub fan's heart to learn whether it was tongue-and-cheek or serious.

The Tribune Corp. didn't authorize this, apparently, so it speaks well for the fandom.

And I certainly hope they throttled that Red Sox fan passerby.... that was gross.

Cubs brass must have removed it pretty quickly; I went for a walk around the park Sunday night (it's in my neighborhood, so I do it several times a week, it wasn't a "seeing the body at the wake for closure" type of thing), and I didn't see any mock shrine, or evidence of one.

*Sigh* I get so tired of seeing the media come out with their "Cubs fandom is in love with losing, and they wouldn't know how to handle winning stories", but then I realize that some of the dumber members of our tribe help perpetuate that crap. We do it to ourselves, and that's almost as pathetic as the hundred year drought.

Although, if I were to contribute something to a "shrine to the 2008 Cubs", it would be Bob Howry's head on a pike.

And someone should invent a "Hey, Don't Look At Me" award for Ted Lilly.

The Cubs players are so tight...let's just say the reason hear all this freakin criticism is cuz there aint no way their fans can get their heads up the players' freakin arses.

Bad stuff happens cuz of bad execution. Hire Baker. Baker has never won a game. Baker's toothpick has by gameplanning a surplus of roids. Both kinds. So Baker keeps his ars grounded and out of the way and his players' upped and in the way.

Hire Pinealla. Pinealla calls out the one player whose taught the team that Baker's hack-smacking aint smart.

Normally bad execution leads to better execution. Its called livin and learnin. But bad execution stays bad execution when becomes the expected pattern and then a "curse"...

Cubs fans erect shrine to futility

So there's a shrine to futility at the shrine of futility?

Why would the person that came from Iowa drive there just to see them lose? Oh, nevermind. Just a stupid expression. Though, from now on, when things don't work out how I want, I am going to say "I went to Iowa".

Can anyone translate post #5?

Can anyone translate post #5?

"Pinealla" is a condo complex in South Florida, I think.

Oh, I see. I learned classical Spanish, not the strange dialect he seems to have picked up.

Try being at game 162 for 2 years in a row and watch the Marlins send you packing. That is pain.

Try being at game 162 for 2 years in a row and watch the Marlins send you packing. That is pain.

Try watching Brian Sabean decimate your team year after year. THAT'S pain.

Cubs fans erect shrine to futility

That must be a very impressive erection.

Ok.

Cubs are a bunch of dumb, gutless losers.

Did I spell gutless right?

Is that a surburb of Chicago?