Andre Dawson May Have Been An Expo, But The Hawk Will Always Be A Cub

Looks like COI is back to the Cubs (enjoy the new header, Lazy). So much for the Bears season helping us forget about the awful Cubs season, so we look forward, much as we do as Cubs fans. I'm not sure what the weather is like in IL, but the cooler (in AZ talk that means 70 degree highs) weather in AZ can only mean one thing, Spring Training is right around the corner. And since the Cubs won't be moving out of Valley till 2012 anyways (HA! GOOD LUCK FL!) that means another year of tailgating, Dos Gringos margaritas, Rolly Fingers autographs and scantily clad ladies in the outfield to look forward to.

But alas, we are still a couple months away from P&Cs reporting. The news in Cubdom is slow...and vague...and speculative...and mostly boring (besides the great news that Ocho the Unlucky and Jake the Snake Fox are gone). Arbitration, Bradley, new billboards, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I finally got around to cleaning out my Google Reader of blog posts from the past 3 weeks that I hadn't read and this morning and I came across an article by the brilliant minds over at Another Cubs Blog. They are once again showing the Cublogosphere that they are really just a bunch of stat fags (as Mike over at The Bad News Cubs so lovingly nicknamed them) and really do hate the Cubs of yore, particularly the Cubs of my generation, the late 80s - 90s (except of course Sammy Sosa, who they gave great love to when he retired...and we're the Idiots?).

A while back, ACB stated that if Ryne Sandberg was to ever become the Cubs manager, they would become a Cardinals blog. While I don't expect to see Ryno calling the shots for the Boys in Blue for a while, it's pretty obvious his movement through the Cubs minor league organization is pretty much getting him ready for the position at the majors. While I love Sweet Lou, the Cubs probably won't be renewing his contract at the end of this year, and if only for the reason of having the haters at ACB stop writing about the Cubs I hope Ryno gets the job. ACB would perfect writing for those morans in St. Louis.

Spelling...it's kind of impotent.

Now ACB is all up in arms about Andre Dawson and if he is elected to the HOF, which cap should he wear.

I don’t particularly care one way or the other if Dawson gets in, but I’m going to be pissed off if he goes in wearing a Cubs hat. That’s just wrong and it’s terribly unfair to the Expos (now the Nationals) organization.

His explanation is simple, the Hawk had a much better WAR while playing with the Expos than he did with the Cubs. Holy shit, some math whiz found a statistic to prove his point. Of course that's typical for MB21 and a lot of baseball fans that like to show how much smarter and better fans they are than you by throwing out stats. I have watched or listened to every Cubs game for the past 3 years and have yet to hear about WAR on a broadcast. In fact, it took me 5 long minutes to find out what WAR actually is, and even when I did, I still have no idea why it is so important (please statties, enlighten me). The only thing I can understand is that it goes by the players importance to the team's win record. Wait, weren't the Cubs the worst team in the NL East the year Dawson won the NL MVP? Even though MB21 showed that the Hawk was 2-1/2 times better his rookie year using WAR, MLB still thought he was the best player in the league in 1987, despite his horrible WAR.

I understand the argument that Dawson's bust should don the Expos cap if he makes it, but as a Cubs fan (dare I say, "a REAL Cubs fan") I want that hat to be a Cubs hat. The Hawk was one of the greatest players for the Cubs at a time when the Cubs sucked. He brought people to the stadium. He made fans like me tune into WGN every afternoon. He was a class act and never complained like the right fielders that have followed him since (including ACB favorite, Sammy Sosa).

The Hawk is a Cub. Period. End of Story.

You can take your boo-hoo's for the Expos organization, MB21, and wipe your tears with your grandma panties and shove 'em up your ass. Yeah, you might be a Cubs fan first, and a baseball fan second, but I'm sure I can find some statistics to prove otherwise. If you haven't been paying attention to the last 100+ years, the Cubs are the most unlucky organization not only in baseball, but all of sports.

So if anyone is a real Cubs fan, you should want our best players in the HOF wearing OUR team's hat, not someone else's. I shouldn't have to take my kid to Cooperstown one day and explain to him that Dawson was one, if not the best, Cub of my generation, but he is wearing a hat of some defunct organization because he has a better WAR. That's about the point where I would want my kid to punch me in the balls and tell me to be a real fan, and not a stat fag. And finally, I understand that MLB has the ruling on whose hat a player wears into the Hall, but shouldn't the fans have a say as well? Do you think those frenchmen in Montreal really give a shit? Or DC for that matter?

But enough about what I think. Who's side are you on 'Merka? MB21 or Ginger's? Or maybe a Marlin's hat, right dumbass?


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