Thank you, baseball gods.

The way my Chicago Cubs are playing, there’s a decent chance that they’ll finish with the worst record in baseball this season. Which I will take as good news. Because it’ll help me be optimistic about next season. I’ll know that things can’t get worse. They’re bound to get better. Even if they have to settle for being only the second worst team in baseball. That’ll be improvement. And I’ll look at 2011 as the year the Cubs bottomed out. The Cubs are about one-third of the way through the season. And they have yet to win three straight games. Yes, when the Cubs win two in a row, we Cubs fans celebrate. Puts us in a good mood. And we thank the baseball gods for being good to us. --Jim Broede