Muller: Once The Bulls Are Eliminated, What's Next? Cubs Baseball?

" (CBS) So, what now?

" Prior to the start of the NBA Playoffs, I thought-and quite confidently too, I might add—that I had until the Eastern Conference Finals (at the very least) before I even had to consider the possibility of the Bulls being eliminated from the playoffs.

Being a Cubs fan, the thought of the Bulls playing deep into the playoffs was very reassuring.

I wanted no part of the 2012 Major League Baseball season.

Seeing how fast the club had fallen in the National League Central standings during the month of April, I wanted nothing more than for Cubs baseball to remain on the back burner for as long as it possibly could. I guess you could say that I just needed more time to prepare myself for the thought watching the team for the remainder of the baseball season.

Three months was all I kept telling myself. If the Bulls made it to the Eastern Conference Finals again, that would allow for three months (June, July, and August) of baseball hell.

That was the goal "

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