A quick word about the lack of Dugouts lately ... as it turns out, we write about baseball so much that we love baseball, and when the playoffs start we're rarin' to go with Dugout after Dugout of wacky dialects and references to Watchmen. Then, two weeks pass we haven't done anything because we've been sitting around watching the playoffs.

I personally thought the Cubs were going to go all the way, because I have brain damage and never learned basic reasoning. Four out of ten Fanhouse writers picked the Cubs to go all the way, because when we aren't running a sports blog we're picking our nose and eating paste.

Don't get discouraged, Cubs fans! They've still got a chance! Tonight's Dugout is after the jump!

The Dugout

	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: ALL RIGHT MINIONS THE CUBBIES HAVE BEEN LOSIN FOR 100 YEARS AN I BEEN LOSIN FOR DAMN NEAR TWICE AS LONG
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: SO I WANT THIS STADIUM, TEAM, CITY, OUTHOUSE AND INHOUSE CURSE FREE
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: HAVE WE BROUGHT IN THE PRIEST TO BLESS OUR CHATROOM WITH HOLY WATER
	grand_marquis: Yes sir, all taken care of.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: HOW THE HELL DID THAT GO
	grand_marquis: Shorted out his computer; now he's got to pray for a new one.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: HAVE WE BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED ALL GOATS IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA
	TheriotGhostbusters: Sure did, coach. Didn't take me that long, either, turns out there aren't a hell of a lot of goats in downtown Chicago.
	TheriotGhostbusters: Put their blood on my front door, just like you asked.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: IS IT HELPIN YOU BE LESS CURSED
	TheriotGhostbusters: I don't know, but now at least I won't have my first born son killed by The Lord.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: WHAT'S THE STORY ON STEVEN Q. BARTMAN
	ReadOnlyMemory: his hands have been "surgically removed" to produce maximum nubbage
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: SO IF HE TRIES TO INTERFERE...
	ReadOnlyMemory: ...it'll be like hitting the ball with a pool cue. We should still be able to catch it.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: TOO RISKY -- HAVE HIM DRAWN AND QUARTERED
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: WE HAVEN'T LET ANY BLACK CATS INTO THE DUGOUT HAVE WE
	DempsterSlut: What, are we segregating the team again?
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: NO YOU SHAKY TW*T I'M TALKING ABOUT CATS IN THE LITERAL IMPERSONAL SENSE
	DempsterSlut: no, no cats will come within 50 miles of us as long as Fukudome is in the pen
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: GOOD JOB DEMPSTER THAT'S THE KIND OF CARELESS RACISM THAT CAN ONLY PAY OFF FOR US
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: HAVE WE ROUNDED UP AND DISPATCHED THE DESCENDANTS OF BABE RUTH AS A POWER PLAY AGAINST HIS GHOST
	gullivers_trammells: didn't think it was important: Babe Ruth was not wronged by us, did not play for us, and has no possible reason to curse us
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: YEAH BUT HE POINTED WHERE HE WAS GOING TO HIT A HOME RUN AND THEN HIT A HOME RUN THERE THAT ONE TIME
	gullivers_trammells: we're still not 100% about him doing that
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: WE'RE DISPUTING HIS LEGACY, ALL THE MORE REASON TO CURSE US GO, KILL HIS FAMILY LIKE I COMMANDED
	gullivers_trammells: I'm just the bench coach, Lou, and I mean MORALLY I don't think I could ever-
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: DOOOO ITTTTT
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: ALL RIGHT, IS THAT EVERYTHING DID WE COVER EVERYTHING
	MannyBoutTown: I think so. Oh, but you forgot one.
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: WE DID WHICH ONE
	MannyBoutTown: The "curse of the other team kicking the sh** out of you at baseball."
	MannyBoutTown: /hits 75 home runs
	Online Host The Dodgers have swept the Cubs and knocked them out of the 2008 Playoffs.
	MannyBoutTown: manny being...
	MannyBoutTown: pshhh, y'all aren't even worth it. /flips dreadlocks
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: YAARRRRGGGHHH
	HowryDoin: Oh no, it's a new and exciting curse! The Curse of the Ram-bino!
	lumberjacks_kerrywood: Combine that with the "Curse of Our Fans Giving Up After Game 1" and we couldn't hope to win!
	Soriano_4_2004: but don't worry everyone, there's always next year, right Coach?
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: OH GOD THE CURSE OF NEXT YEAR
	PiniellaOnTheDonkey: ARGH I THINK MY HEART JUST EXPLODED
	grand_marquis: Ours too, coach.

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