Ueck takes a burn at the Cubs

I was on the road last night so I had to catch the Brewer-Cubs game on the Brewer Radio Network. During the Postgame Show Jim Powell said "If this season has a happy ending we'll look back on tonight's game."

To which Bob Uecker replied, almost matter-of-factly, "Oh, it'll have a happy ending. These guys (meaning the Cubs) aren't gonna win anything." He didn't sound like he was joking.

I've heard Ueck take burns at individual players (normally hot dogs of one sort or another), but in all the years I've been listening to his broadcasts, I really can't remember him taking a burn at a whole team before.

His annoyance with the Cubs stems from some childish locker room comments made by various Cubs after Tuesday night's game. They claimed Uecker's insertion of the words "Root, root, root for the Brewers" into the traditional Wrigley Field PA rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" inspired them to their three run seventh inning rally. If they meant what they said, its kind of pathetic if you ask me. (That was really their source of motivation? Are they professionals... or high schoolers?)

Of course, Ueck's been around the superstitious world of baseball all his adult life, so he probably buys into that kind of illogical cause-and-effect reasoning. I think he may actually believe he was in some way to blame for the Brewers seventh inning collapse. Suffice to say I wouldn't be expecting anymore seventh inning karaoke from him any time soon.