the price I continue to pay for the Jordan years

I can’t complain about basketball ever again, but have nothing but complaints to make about baseball. The facts are painful, as the ESPN article on Lou Piniella’s impending retirement just reminded me:

“The Cubs have gone 102 years without a World Series title.”

I think 1908 is also the same year that the teenaged Heidegger first read Brentano’s thesis on the multiple senses of being in Aristotle. It’s been awhile since the Cubs won, in other words.

I usually stay pretty calm during sporting events, but in October 2003 I was in a foul, foul mood for a few days after the Cubs blew it against Florida, that long-suffering team that had already won a championship in its storied 10-year history.