ESPNChicago.com reports: Kevin Millar sees no reason the Cubs can't be like that Red Sox team that won the World Series in 2004.
"You've always heard that the Cubs are the lovable losers. You go out to the bleachers, you have some beer, you root for the Cubs and they get blown out 11-2 and we scream Harry Caray," Millar said Friday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "That's not what it is about. When I signed with Boston in '03 they had the same negative [atmosphere]. The media beat you up. The one thing that I think our group brought is that we didn't care about everything that was said. All we had to do was believe we could play and win the game that night.
"This whole curse stuff, it isn't funny. It's not the lovable loser anymore. You're got to go into camp focusing on the big picture and get prepared and get a chance to know the guys. Something has got to be different here because it hasn't worked so you've got to get that winning attitude. You've got to get these guys believing they can do it, that Derrek Lee is going to win the MVP, that Ryan Dempster can win 20 games. That's what it's about."
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Photo: Kevin Millar reacts to striking out in 2007. (AP / Don Wright)
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White Sox fans are are nothing more than south side scum-bags looking for their next rock so they can smoke-up and ride the Red Line all day while dreaming about 2005.
Millar is just what the Cubbies need a former "Roid Sox"
player! The scum bag "Roid Sox" got swept by the White Sox in the playoffs!
Again and again the Cub management proves to be inept!
Mr. Southside Billy Ligue
If by lock up you mean jail, then it is obvious our tax dollars are not working on your rehabilitation. You insulting someones intelligence is possibly the funniest thing I have ever read on the Tribune website.
You're missing the point millar is saying that they can't think about 102 years and the pressure of winning the world series with the history the cubs have.That was 1 of the reasons the 2008 playoffs were such a debacle,It was clear several players put way to much pressure on themselves with the media having silly ass "100 year this and that articles top 20 cubs moments since 1908" Game 2 showed what pressure can do.Millar went to a boston team with the same situation the red sox had more pressure than the cubs since they have actually been to several world series 1967,1975,1986 and lost all of them in game 7.Cubs haven't even gotten that close since 1945.He's saying it's all about attitude just like life it's all about your thinking cubs have the talent now don't care about the history and just play ball.
Milar must put that bong down....His words are a transparent attempt to win a spot on the roster. He is exactly what the Cubs need...another slow, right hand hitter well past his prime.
I snickered when I read the headline, thinking to myself “oh the naiveté of another new Cub coming in the door. I immediately thought about Lou Pinella blathering on in the same way about changing the losing culture when he was hired, bla, bla, bla. Now I see a manager looking to collect a paycheck for one more season before heading off into the sunset. Besides that, the problem is that Jim Hendry is still the GM, and the Cubs are not going anywhere but home come October third. I did like what Kevin said though. It is, after all, early February, and Hope Springs Eternal- at least until mid May.
Mr. Southside Billy Ligue on February 6, 2010 8:52 AM
Yess!! Hennie is here!
One of my soutside brothers is back!!
Thanks tribune people for postin looser cubs stories!
It's where we southsiders likes to get together! We just drawn to dem, i guess.
One of then hoity toity faggot cubs fans said we is cubsessed.
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Oh, how I enjoy seeing those fine south side educations at work. Warms my heart. So classy too. I am starting to understand what a friend of mine means when he says that most Sox fans he knows, the ones south of 18th street, are bigots. I think he is onto something.
Yess!! Hennie is here!
One of my soutside brothers is back!!
Thanks tribune people for postin looser cubs stories!
It's where we southsiders likes to get together! We just drawn to dem, i guess.
One of then hoity toity faggot cubs fans said we is cubsessed. What do that even mean. they think they so smart cause they finish the eight th grade, and dont have to pay no do's to work. what a bunch of looser nortside faggots! Rite Hennie! most of them faggots aint never even been in lockup. looser fags.
So tribune people keep posings them looser cubs articles, we southsiders needs places to meet up an post here on the aol!
SOUTHSIDE!!!!
Let me just say one thing. When I go into the sports sections of any website and there is a Sox article, I have about the same desire to read that as I do an article on Oprah. What compels you Sox fans to not only read every Cubs article but then take the time to comment on them. Are the White Sox really that boring. If so, I feel for you, continue to comment it makes me smile.
Hahaha wriote" Millar will bring the luck to the Cubs."
That's contrary to what Millar is saying. It's not luck, it's attitude. Millar will bring leadership and the perspective of a winner to the clubhouse. If anything, just listening to what it took the BoSox to win after years of being labeled as the lovable losers of the AL is important for guys like Zambrano, Soriano and Soto need (Lee, Rameriz and Dempster I already believe get the picture).
...they can't be what they are every year.
A pathetic, tired joke.
I have the Cubs being more like the 2009-10 New Jersey Nets.
If they're lucky they might be like the 2006 white Sox oh wait they'd have to win 90 games never mind they'll win up to 80.
I see that we still have obsessed trolls roaming in the cubs forums....Millar will bring the luck to the Cubs.
Great attitude.Cubs can compete with anybody millar was on the 03 and 04 red sox teams he knows about defying odds (0-2 deficit in alds against oak) and the 0-3 deficit against the yanks.Hopefully he makes the roster as a backup 1st basemen/pinch hitter he might not be as effective but it's good to have that experience and positive attitude.
Actually the curse stuff is funny. It's always cool to be a lovable loser!!!
There's no reason they can't be like the 2009 Mets either.