They Can't Be Serious

Just listened to Cliff Floyd's conference call over at the Cubs' web site. I guess Floyd will be a useful part -- for the fifty games he's healthy in 2007...

At any rate, it was most instructive to listen in on the press call. It's rare for fans to get a glimpse of our press corps in action.

The lowlight of the call came with Bruce Levine, a reporter for the ESPN radio station in Chicago, asked Floyd his opinion on why the Cubs have gone nearly one hundred years without a World Series Championship.

Great googaly moogaly! Floyd did the best he could with the feeble question, answering that he only saw what the fans saw, but he's optimistic for this year, blah blah blah.

What else could Floyd do? Did Levine really expect any kind of substantive answer to that question? Did he expect Floyd to take a couple swings at the team that just gave him a job?

Or was he just hoping Floyd would say something stupid, thus making his job easier?

If I hadn't heard Devine ask the question, I wouldn't have thought it possible. I swear, if our baseball press corps weren't real, you couldn't make them up. No sane people would believe that anyone could be that dumb...