Dominant Cub Thoughts

Look, I know it's early. I know they've played no one to this point but Milwaukee and Philadelphia, and in those games they are 2-4. But the Cubs are playing dominant baseball against teams they need to beat. Period. There's no way getting around it. They have already swept the Pirates twice and taken 2 of 3 from both the Reds and Astros. Those are Central Division teams they are beating up on, which can only help our cause. They have won 6 of 7 games, and honestly look like the '27 Yankees when facing the Pirates. Time will only tell how many other teams look like those Bombers when they face the lowly Buccos.

I want to jump to conclusions. Why can't that ever work? Why can't we just go through this season playing like we are now and cruise to a Central Division title. I suppose it's because Cub fans can never have anything easy. We have to earn it. So here's to us destroying bad teams all year long. If we can just follow that game plan, then losing to teams with winning records will definitely not hurt us as bad. And it is statements like that that keep Tim McCarver in business. State the obvious, you can't go wrong.

On the flip side of the coin, we start a series with the Mets tomorrow, a short one albeit. The important thing in this series is to make our presence felt. Last year, Ryan Dempster made a living blowing 9th inning leads to this team. Hopefully this year's closer can hold those leads and let the W flag fly above Wrigley. To play devil's advocate on my last tangent, winning games against teams with winning records is the hallmark of good baseball teams. If the Cubs continue along their early season path against top teams, us Cub fans are in for a long disappointing ride.

If you want to know what's going to happen, though, I can't tell you. No one can, and that's the best part of sports. And in particular baseball; where else can you watch your team play everyday to determine your fate in October. I would give nothing up to live through a winning baseball season, everything bad seems to fall by the wayside. So here's to continued dominance. Go Cubs!

Song of the day, "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," by The Postal Service. Strange electronic sound with cool lyrics and a nice tune. By the way on the NBA front, Kobe got mad and dominated the 4th quarter , Pau was awesome all game and the Lakers rolled. But the big surprise was Detroit not showing up at home and dropping Game 1 to the 76ers. That series just jumped on my radar. 'Til next time, we've got Cubs-Mets on ESPN Monday night and both Spurs-Suns and Hornets-Mavs on Tuesday night on TNT. I love spring.