I will never understand why people gravitate towards the Cubs. Why would anyone in their right mind want to follow a team that loses every year? Then I sat down and thought about it and realized that I will never understand because I’m mentally stable. Albert Einstein described insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Cubs fans have expected a title for over 100 years yet every year it doesn’t happen. Being a Cubs fan isn’t a choice it’s a mental disorder called Cubsitis. Many people with this disorder claim they knew from birth they liked watching the Cubs. The sad part is there’s no cure. Cubs fans will claim that they’re sick of watching this bad team every year. I can’t tell you how many friends I know who will claim after another loss that they’re never watching again, but they always keep watching.

I wanted to get more proof that this disorder exists. I wanted to find out if Cubs fans were even knowledgeable about their own team. I did a little research and found a website called Fanified.com. It’s a website where fans go to get certified on their favorite sports team, musical artist or TV show. Basically how it works is that you must first pass a 50 question certification test in order to post stories or comments on the website. This filters the users so you’re only able to talk to people who actually know what they’re talking about, imagine that.

I checked the stats of the Cubs certification test and noticed that currently only 42% of Cubs fans are passing. I don’t know about you but when I was in school that meant you had an “F”. I thought maybe this was the norm for fans on the website so I checked around. Chicago Bears fans had a 67% passing rate, the Chicago Bulls fans had a 68% passing rate and even the Miami Heat fans had a better passing rate at 43%. Cubs are in dead last again.

This confirmed my assumption, Chicago Cubs fans keep following the team but they don’t care about the outcome or even care to remember anything about the team. Their disorder has taken over to the point that they’re numb about everything related to the team. They’re almost like zombies searching for brains, but instead they’re searching for titles that will never exist. The only way they cope is to focus on other less important things like the crowd and scene around Wrigley. Hopefully one day our top scientists can figure out a cure for this, until then it’s very important to understand the sad truth of why people love the Cubs.

To win the American League, the leading starting Spring Training is the New York Yankees. The Yankees are +300 odds. New York will not have it easy, as both the Red Sox and Rays will compete well in the division. With the addition of Albert Pujols, the Angels are picked as the second best team in the AL. Pujols was joined by C.J. Wilson, which makes them a huge favorite in the AL West. Next, is the Detroit Tigers, who added Prince Fielder to a team that won the AL Central last season. Fielder and Cabrera will be quite the duo. Next, is the two time defending champion Texas Rangers. While the Rangers lost some key players, they also added Yu Darvish to the mix. The fifth best team according to odds makers in the AL is the Boston Red Sox. Boston is +550 to win the AL.

Out of the National League, outside of the Philadelphia Phillies, you can get a better bargain. The Phillies are huge favorites, at +175. After that, Florida is second at +700 with the addition of Ozzie Guillen, Mark Buerhle and Jose Reyes. Arizona and San Francisco are next with +800, while the Braves are third in the NL East with +1000, and the NL Central favorite Cincinnati comes in at +1000. The defending World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals, who are led by Mike Matheny now, are at +1200 to win the National League. Milwaukee, the defending NL Central champions are also +1200.

To win the whole thing in 2012 – Philadelphia is the favorite. The Phillies were downed in five games last season in the opening round in five games. Philadelphia is listed at +475. The Yankees and Angels are second at +550, and then goes two more AL teams = in Detroit and Texas. The Tigers and Red Sox are just ahead of Boston, +800 to +900 respectively. The defending champion St. Louis Cardinals are +2500 to repeat.

One of the categories looked at most by baseball fans is who leads in homeruns. Odds makers have placed the odds with either Joey Bautista or Mike Stanton to win it all. Bautista continues to hit at a great pace, while Stanton is a major up and coming star in Miami. The new addition to the Angeles – Albert Pujols is next, at +1000. Mark Teixiera is also listed at +1000. Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, teammates in Detroit are list at +1200, along with Adrian Gonzalez.

With not only these odds, but all the storylines coming out of Major League Baseball, we are poised to see a monster year in MLB. These lines came from Bodog, so be sure to continue checking back before the start of the season to see if these lines have moved at all. Best of luck!

Neither team has won a World Series in their new stadium.

On the north side Cubs fans are saying—we”re going all the way!!! And the rest of the National League Central agrees — going all the way to the bottom, that is!!!

A guy gets married and is waiting for his wife on his honeymoon. She walks out of the bathroom in a flimsy little lingerie and says, “Now be gentle, I’m a virgin.” The guy says, “I’m your fourth husband….how can you be a virgin?” The woman says, “Well, my first husband turned out to be gay and he wouldn’t do it. My second husband was an acoholic and he couldn’t do it. And my third husband was a Cub fan. He kept saying, ‘Wait till next year…wait till next year!’