Wednesday WOOHOO

You have to admire the way this offense continues to battle back even with the sorry performance of the manager and bullpen to date. Last year, with the cubs down 3 and only two innings, especially if one of those two involved the 3-4-5 slots, I would have shut the game off and added it to the loss column. I mean, sosa and alou aren't the types to be kick-starting any rallies, but today was different.

Lee seems just plain possesed and Corey is insanely better out of the lead-off spot. The best thing about today's game was the amount of pitches they took. Not to say that they walked a lot more than usual, but they ran the counts up, and that is a new development. For the longest time my biggest beef with this team is that the Pitchers were afraid to throw strikes and the hitters were afraid to make them throw strikes. My philosophy on this (and that's not to imply that I'm the only one to ever say this) is that the Batter always has the advantage, the more pitches he sees. The cubs seemed to always take the oposite approach. See as few pitches as possible before swinging, and throw as many as possible before throwing a strike. ie. Dempster's performance today w/bases loaded. Well, it seems like at least the Batters are starting to turn around. Corey seems to be shortening his swing up a bit and Hairston seems a bit more comfortable every day he's in the lineup...

I'm trying to keep this post positive cause anyone can rip the cubs, that takes very little talent as there's a lot there to criticize, but to have had this many injuries and bullpen issues before the end of April, and still be one game over 500, we should all be counting our blessings and remember the Astros of last year and Marlins of '03 if looking for some example of a slow starter making noise, so lets all enjoy this day off, recover and get ready for a Bomb-fest in houston, it probably won't be pretty, but it should be a lotta fun... i feel like Aramis is gonna blow up down there...