There is always next year....

The agony of another Major League baseball season is over. But the best part is just starting you may say. For a Cubs fan the end of September is more often than not the end of the baseball season and the beginning of "there is always next year...". Dusty and his toothpick have been run out of Wrigley as quickly as the farmer and his goat nearly 100 years ago.
I am still not sure how I feel about the firing. What does a manager really do anyways? There is no other person on the planet that could make up 30 games to draw the Cubbies to even a .500 record. Much less put them in playoff contention (although that would not take much more in the NL).
On the other hand, maybe just a fresh outlook could give a change in attitude much like what happened when Dusty came in 2003 and took them within 5 outs of the World Series (see A Cub Fans Lament).
Well, maybe some things will go right for the Cubs. The perfect manager will be hired, Prior will be healthy (or even better, we could trick someone into trading for him), Wood will be healthy, no costly injuries will occur e.g. Derrek Lee and his wrist and Micheal Barrett's uhm how can I put this, "private injury", and Cubs will ride the wave of loyal fanhood all over the nation straight to the World Series. There is always next year...