27 Years Ago Today...

Bases Full of Cubs

Finally! After two straight loses to Milwaukee to start the season, our beloved Cubbies avoided a sweep and finally beat the Brew Crew 6 - 3 this afternoon in The Friendly Confines. They played much better than their miserable outing yesterday (when they looked like my 5 year old nephew's soccer team), and DLee, DeRosa, and De Fuku are early bright spots. Aramis went deep today and the entire team, except Pie of course, showed more patience at the plate. Soriano finally got an RBI blooper after going 0 for 11 to start the season, Dempster looked good in the rotation, and Wood threw lights out at 96 to get his first save as The Closer. Hopefully this will be the turning point from a very mediocre Spring Training. They've struggled playing small ball and executing the fundamentals, so today was a definite improvement. They were aggressive running the bases, but still left 9 runners standed. Oh well, the white flag is flying tonight and we've got the first one under our belt on our way to a World Championship. Oh yea, it's gonna happen!

All You Need is Love

OK, so if you're looking for something meaningful and profound, go to Sandy's blog. (I'm not that deep, it's taken me two months to come up with this!) Here we're going to get down to the nitty gritty and tackle the really important issues and tough questions like,
What is the all-time greatest Beatles song starting with the letter "I"? (Seriously, have you noticed how many great Beatles songs start with the letter I?) And even though No Reply doesn't start with I, I've included it because it's so great, it should be on ANY list of all-time best Beatles songs.
So, to the left is a poll where you can vote for your favorite. Then next Saturday we should all come together (get it, come together) and discuss it at Chubby's, which doesn't really have anything to do with Los Beatles, but it would be fun and the food is great! Now that I think about it, wasn't Ringo known as the chubby Beatle?