yesterday was opening day. thanks to good friends i was able to get to turner field yesterday and sit four rows up from the field. even though my beloved cubs ended up getting obliterated, it was good to sit in the sun and watch baseball again.
speaking of my cubs, this fantasy baseball season opens with the lowest number of cubs EVER on the three psycho dogs roster, just one, starter randy wells, who i drafted late in the draft anyway. maybe after years of playing i have finally grasped that you can be true to your heart or you can be true to trying to be the best fantasy team you can be, but unless your in real life team is the yankees or red sox, you probably can’t be both.
i think the wendepunkt for me on this came right before the season when i traded the only cub worth having, aramis ramierez, to our finance manager for jose reyes. ramierez is my favorite cub and has been on my team for years, but my team is much, much better with a healthy jose reyes.
two other things ben k and i learned on our opening day trip to the ted. one, jason heyward can hit the crap out of a baseball. two, never park in a ghetto front yard parking lot if you need to leave the game early.
p.s. – i think .500 will be a struggle for these cubs this year.
the cubs clinched the nl central division yesterday.
growing up itinerant, i never had a home team and thanks to wgn the cubs became mine. more than any other sports team, they are the one i have followed my whole like – through ups and down.
It’s almost always unfair to blame a loss on a single play — and it’s doubly unfair to pin the Cubs’ losses in Game 6 AND Game 7 of the 2003 NLCS on a pop fly that might have been caught by Moises Alou if not for Bartman’s reach for the ball. (Which he didn’t even catch.)
so anyway, no talk of bartman, no talk of goats, let’s just talk about winning a world series.
don’t stare too closely, jon c, but after sweeping the sox this weekend the cubs are now two games clear of the cards and perhaps back in contention for the division.
we really need to figure out what you are going to pay me when i win this bet.
Mark Prior is out for the rest of the season. His once promising future with the Chicago Cubs is unclear, although surgery on his right shoulder is not considered career-threatening.
Prior has been beset by injuries since his first full season in the majors in 2003. He went on the disabled list three times last year and started this season at Triple-A Iowa.
thanks, dusty.
coming a few outs away from the world series was so not worth this.
i really feel sad for mark. to have hall of fame talent and be unable to utilize it must be a particularly horrifying curse. and what was a 20-something kid supposed to say?
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