August 6, 1908 - Cubs play awful, lose twice. Also, no nightgown for you! Oh ... and an awesome do

The Cubs had a day to forget, dropping both games of a doubleheader to Philadelphia 7-5 and 5-3. Also, no nightgown for you! Oh ... an awesome dog.

Let's play two! Actually in hindsight ... let's not!

The Cubs looked horrible today, committing ELEVEN combined errors in the two games. Joe Tinker had two of his own in the first game, and Harry Steinfeldt had three boots in game two. In fact, nine of Philadelphia's 12 runs were unearned. So yeah ... not their best work.

And with these losses the Cubs fell three games out of first, and the Chicago media was already in full on panic mode, practically declaring the entire season to be hopeless. To quote the Tribune, the Cubs "battle for the 1908 pennant [is] a desperate one the rest of the way."

To be fair, I'm pretty sure if this happened right now in 2016, Cubs Twitter would have an absolute meltdown. The freaking out would be non-stop whining and despair, already declaring the season a washout and demanding Theo be fired and Kris Bryant traded for prospects. (Fortunately that is not the case!)

In game one the Cubs scored three runs in the top of the 9th to make a game of it, and even managed to get the go-ahead run to the plate. Jimmy Sheckard stepped to the plate with two on and two out, but weakly grounded to first and the game was over.

Game two ended in similar fashion with the Cubs trailing 5-3 in the 9th, but managed to get runners on first and third with two outs to again send the go-ahead run to the plate. This time it was catcher Pat Moran, and this time he grounded out to third instead of first.

Two game, two failed chances, two losses.

What are we even doing here?

In other news ... no nightgown for you! At least that's what the courts told a young lady who had an affinity for purchasing them. I'll spare you the confusing details that set this all up, but apparently a father took his eldest daughter to court because she was working for (and living with) a wealthy family. The Dad wanted her to send all of the money she made back to the family to pay their bills, but the daughter developed an affinity for purchasing expensive clothes, and apparently a $1.65 nightgown was the last straw.

The father petitioned to the court that a nightgown was "not a necessity" and she should instead give all her money to him. Naturally because this is 1908, the judge agreed and told the woman she would simply have to "wrap herself in a sheet from now on." Ahhh 1908 ... you slay me!

I will say this, knowing how lame everything was back then, I bet even sleeping naked while wrapped in a sheet was somehow made terribly unsexy. (Probably a sheet made out of old potato bags or something.)

I'm ... so ... itchy

Finally, just thought I'd quickly pass along this story of an awesome dog. The Tribune reported that while at the beach, a dog got caught up in the rough surf and started to get washed into sea, only to be rescued by ANOTHER DOG who saw it all happen. That's right, a dog rescued another dog from drowning. Awesome!

Meanwhile, a nearby cat sat there and acted like a jerk and did nothing. (Bazinga!)

I hate everything!

In summary ... the losses put the Cubs at 56-40 on the year. Add in the Pittsburgh win and they are now three games out of first and in third place. Things don't get any easier tomorrow as the Cubs travel to New York to face the second place Giants.