I’ve contemplated my own history of loving baseball, and I’ve come to realize I am more a lover of losers than of the game itself. I spent many of my formative years anxiously awaiting Charlie Brown’s first win on the mound, and once I figured out that wasn’t coming, I switched to the Mets with little improvement until the late 80s. In the last few years, I spent some time riding the Red Sox gravy train, and now that they’ve finally reversed the curse, I have to say my heart is kind of leaning towards the Cubs. According to this nice bit of sportswriting from Mike Lopresti of USA Today, this year is especially agonizing for the Cubs, as their arch-rivals the Cardinals and local rivals the White Sox are amassing the best records in baseball. (This one goes out to my pal Brooks.)