"Could this be the year?"

I was watching Mondays Cubs game against the Rockies with my aunt. After Marmol walked in the tying run she started saying that no matter how bad the Cubs played, fans would always show up and cheer them on. I agreed. Then she went on saying that it seemed like the Cubs players, management, front office and owners would all have a meeting and decide that winning wasn't for them. So basically she was claiming that the Cubs were losing on purpose.

Of course I had no answer to her theory. I was shocked at her allegations. But then the image of the Ricketts, Lou , Hendry and our beloved players in a room thinking up new ways to lose played in my mind. The scary thing was, that it started to make sense. Think about it, Cubs fans continue to fill Wrigley every game with the hopes that "this is the year". And every year we die hards find out the hard way that it isn't the year. Anyway, my aunt then gave me a lecture on why the Cubs would never win the World Series. She was slowly crushing every last hope I still held on too. Now, this was all before Aramis Ramirez hit the walk off 2-Run HR. Once that happened, I was once again among the thousands of Cubs fans thinking, "could this be the year?"