CITY HALL — The mayor is holding out hope that the Cubs can turn things around, but not without a little subtle criticism couched in Yiddish.
"One never loses hope as a Chicago Cub fan," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday after attending Tuesday's 5-2 playoff loss to the New York Mets at Wrigley Field.
"As a Cub fan and as somebody who's enjoyed ... the game against Pittsburgh and the series against St. Louis, one never loses hope as a Chicago Cub fan," Emanuel said.
Yet, in referring to Tuesday's game, which included at least one error, several miscues and a dropped third strike that allowed allowed a run that gave the Mets the lead for good, Emanuel let slip, "It's a shanda."
"Shanda" or "shonde" is typically defined as a "shame" or "scandal," but with a further connotation as an abbreviation of "shanda fur die goy," in which a public shame acted out by a Jew in front of non-Jews brings disgrace on all Jews by confirming the worst beliefs about them.
So oy with the Cubs already. Tuesday's game was certainly a shanda by any Cub standard.
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