The Cubs just wrapped their third division title in the last five seasons, But you know they say about the Cubs. No matter how consistently successful they are, vestiges of Essential Cubness still cling to them like barnacles on a whaler.
And so we come to the first of our Weekend Media Highlights, in which athletes either channel ghostly figures from the past or reveal that no matter how old they get, they'll always be tantrum-y toddlers who throw their Cheerios on the floor when things don't go their way.
First, the former, which involves Cubs stalwart Kris Bryant and a long-ago Cubs manager named Lee Elia.
Elia became immortal for his profanity-laced trashing of Cubs fans after a game in 1983 in which the fans had booed his Cubs. Bryant performed a less-expansive homage, sort of, when asked what he thought of criticism.
“I don’t give a s***,” Bryant said. “I really don’t. That’s a good answer. I’m over it. Sometimes I go out there and go 4-for-4 and it’s not good enough for some people so I DON'T GIVE A S***."
Awesome. Didn't have the nuclear meltdown qualities of Elia's rant, nor its poetic cadence of the repetitive "My (bleepin') ass" with which Elia punctuated his, um, thoughts about Cubs fans. But it was a good effort nonetheless.
Equally good was Kyle Busch's performance after the NASCAR race the other night,
He's been petulant even for him most of this season, but Saturday night he got into the back of lapped traffic due to spotter mixup, and he wasn't happy about it. So he took it out on the media afterwards with a succession of pouty one-word non-answers punctuated with the admission that he was only talking to them because he'd get fined if he didn't.
In other words, it was Kyle Busch being his essential jackwagon Kyle Busch self. Here's the clip.
In these profoundly altered times, it's good to know some things never change.
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