Give me a wonderful forever.

My Chicago Cubs are pitiful. In the last 11 weeks, they’ve had 15 one-run losses, seven two-run losses, 14 blown saves, a 15-game deficit in the standings and no way up in a division that includes three of the top four teams in the majors. And I suspect that the Cubs management loves what’s happening. They want the Cubs to lose. So that they can trade some of the veteran players for  younger players. With great potential. To become future stars. Don’t know if it’s gonna work. We Cubs fans are supposed to have faith. That it’s all leading to the World Series. Some day. But I would have preferred more effort this season. Imagine turning 10 of those heartbreaking losses into wins instead. That would be 10 more wins and 10 less losses. A 20-game swing. The Cubs would be contending now. They’d be billed as the Amazing Cubs.  With momentum that could carry them all the way. But the management plan is to lose, lose, lose. In order to stockpile the Cubs farm system with young baseball players of the future. But I tend to want to live in the now. Not the future.  I want it both ways. A wonderful now. A wonderful future. A wonderful forever. –Jim Broede