This morning I was doing my morning perusal of Reddit when I happened upon this post, entitled Poor Guy :-(. It was from the “Pics” subreddit, and shows five fisherman hamming it up for the camera after a day out on the water.

As you can see, all of them seem happy and proud…except for one of them, who appears to have been unable to reel anything in that day.

Image source: Imgur

I kid you not, it did not take me more than two seconds to think: that is a perfect metaphor for professional sports in Chicago. And if you do not know what role I immediately assigned to the portly pouter, you clearly do not stop by this site very often during baseball season.

For those who do not see the Chicago sports metaphor that is basically leaping out of the picture above, I decided it would be fun to spell it out for you. And it was.

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