Go Cubs Go!

Congratulations to the 2007 Chicago Cubs, the NL Central champs once again. About 24 hours after I and probably many others were really pissed that they got swept, they played up to their potential and beat Cincinnati, which, after the Padres beat Milwaukee again, was enough for them to clinch. I did not like the Lou Piniella signing when it happened. I am happy to once again say that I was wrong. I compared him to Grampa Simpson at times. At times, he sounded a bit befuddled. But he proved me wrong, and he proved he still has it. One huge step down, 3 to go. And any of you who sit by the wall during the playoffs, remember to punch your neighbor if he is about to do a Bartman and try to catch a foul ball that one of our guys could catch.

Venting

Excus eme while I vent. If the Cubs can't beat a team 20 games under .500 even once, maybe they don't deserve to be in the playoffs. What a disappointing, shitty performance by our "heroes", especially afterthe 3 game sweep of Pittsburgh. I'm really fucking tired of the excuses we're already hearing, like "we couldn't pratice before the game because of the rain". Brenly used that one. Or, "well the Marlins are relaxed and don't have to play with any stress". After 156 fucking games, you guys ought to be ready to win, not get swept. All I know is, if they do end up blowing this, someone has to get fired for this. Hendry, Rothschild, even Sweet Lou, I don't care - someone has to go if they blow it.

This is for the Puds at Dork Side Baseball

This was a great series win for the Cubs, especially after getting their ass beat on Friday. Today's game was a great win, capped by Derrek Lee's 2 run homer with 2 out in the 8th (or only 4 outs left), which put the Cubs ahead by the ultimate final score of 6-5. This all might not have been necessary if Rich Hill didn't crap the mound in the first inning, causing him to only last 5 innings and give up 5 runs during that time. Same thing happened with Sean Marshall on Friday. It is getting very tiresome watching the vaunted starting rotation only go 5 innings over and over, or barely making it into the 6th (even the $91 million man is doing that more often than not). That is why I personally don't mind the Cubs getting Steve Trachsel back. It wasn't the greatest trade ever but it wasn't bad considering what may have been available. The dorky Puds over at north side baseball (well, a lot of them - quite a few anyway) have been complaining about this trade mortgaging the Cubs future for an old man on his last legs. I don't think Scott Moore and Clay Rapada will come back to haunt the Cubs Besides, if 3 of these clowns could get out of the first with less than 20 pitches, make it to the 7th inning regularly (btw, thank you Jason Marquis), and give up only 1 or 2 runs during that time, maybe Hendry wouldn't have tried to get Trachsel, and maybe many of these same people wouldn't be bitching that Carlos Marmol is being overworked. If you were Lou Piniella, what would you do? Final thought today, the Cubs last 4 wins, 5-3,5-4,4-3,6-5. Not too bad for a team that started out 0-10 (or whatever) in 1 and 2 run games.