During the sixties, I loved the Chicago Cubs. Every day at school, I would meet with my friends to discuss the previous day's game. I would bet on my favorite player hitting a home run, sometime during that day's game. Ron Santo was my favorite player and I made a small fortune on my correct wagers. I knew, and I do mean, I really knew, when he would hit a home run. Call it psychic or psycho, I knew. 

I was so much of a fan of Ron Santo, when he was traded to the White Sox. I became a White Sox fan. The Cubs' loss was the Sox's gain. I am still a Sox fan, even tho I don't follow it religiously. The baseball lockout and the phony-baloney home run competition between Sosa and McQuire soured me on baseball. I finally came out of my self-imposed baseball exile during the 2005 season. That was the year that the Sox beat the Cubs, for the competition to bring the first World Series Championship to Chicago, during my lifetime.

The Cubs could of been the first team to win the World Series. During the 1969 season, the Cubs were a million games ahead in the middle of August. The IDIOT baseball manager refused to rest any of the starting players, even tho they were at a competitive disadvantage. The Cubs played every home game under the hot sun, while the competition were playing under moonlight. 81 games played under a hot sun will drain the energy from a player and if the competition doesn't have that same problem they will come out on top.

Leo Durocher came from the "old school' of baseball managers. In the OLD days, the players were never rested, they played each and every day.

Hey, moron, if your players are the only ones that are not in pristine playing shape then you're not doing your job. It is my firm belief, Leo Durocher was the main reason that the Cubs did not win in 1969. Amazing Mets, my ass. The Cubs were so much better than the 1969 Mets. Anybody who wants to argue, please tell me why the Mets were down by a BILLION games in August, and only pulled ahead during the later part of the HOT SUMMER.

Another example of Leo Durocher's inability to manage a baseball team can be seen on this video clip from the infamous sitcom Mister Ed. Mister Ed is trying out for the Dodgers (team that Leo managed prior to the Cubs) and hits an in-the-park home run. Leo exclaims about Mister Ed, "that is the smartest horse that I have ever seen."

That is the person that Phil Wrigley hired to bring a World Series to Chicago? A man who thinks a talking and home run hitting horse can play Major Leaque baseball, is not my first choice for the "Baseball Manager of the Year" award.








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