If this isn't an apt metaphor for the Chicago Cubs, I don't know what is…

It’s funny (or sad, depending on your point of view) because this bear cub has a plastic jar stuck on its head.
After a frantic ten-day search by agents of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after reports first started rolling in regarding a cub who somehow managed to get itself in quite the predicament after nosing around in some rubbish in Ocala National Forest in central Florida, the poor bear, presumed dead, was finally captured using baited traps.
Fortunately for Jarhead, the name given to the little guy – I would have named it Bartman, for obvious reasons – wildlife agents were much more effective at cleaning up a messy situation than Lou Piniella, Dusty Baker, Don Baylor, Jim Riggleman – well, you get the point – ever proved adept at, as Jarhead was finally freed from its plastic jar bondage shortly after capture.
Video of Jarhead’s jar-free liberation after the jump.

Look at ‘em go! It sure is nice to see a happy ending for the cubs after such a traumatizing ordeal. If only baseball’s Cubbies could somehow provide a similar happy ending for their tortured, much-maligned fanbase. I’m sure most fans, given the Cubs are for all intents and purposes eliminated from postseason contention now that they find themselves 17 games back in the NL Central, would much rather have jars crammed on their heads rather than watch their squad once again playing out the string in another underwhelming season. Sad but true.
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The bear with a sore head: Cub saved 10 days after getting stuck in plastic bottle [Mail Online]