UberPocky

I have a beef with the All-Star game. Actually I have a couple of beefs. The simplest of which, is: NL Lost. Let’s start with the Line Score:

So the Cubs do not get home field advantage for the World Series. All this means, we gotta win off our own turf. Job for the second half: get some wins on the road. Improve that away record.

Now: on to my real beef about the all star game this year. It was more about the Yankees and Yankee Stadium then the PLAYERS. This made me quite angry. I know It’s Yankee Stadium’s last year. I know there’s alot of history there. But the new one is EXACTLY like the old one, except bigger. I don’t understand how Fox made the decision to cover this like they did. They should have spent more time on the All-Stars. And they seemed to favor the American League in every way! *sigh* Oh well. /rant over

I’m getting a little frustrated with these two players on the Chicago Cubs. Today we lost the series Against the Pittsburgh Pirates. We won the first game but lost the two since. Both lost games (today, and yesterday) where in extra innings so it’s extra stressful for our team, even more so for the bullpen.

Yesterday’s I did not see in it’s entirty, but I heard today that Ryan Theriot (our short stop) made a pretty bad error. I have no idea what it was but oh well.

Today, It was Soriano. He miss a rather routine catch out in Left Field (his neck of the woods). He was not charged with the error, even though I would have charged him with one. That was a bad scoring call in my opinion. He’s a great hitter but as a fielder. Oh my god, I wanna strangle him. So yeah. *sigh*

I’m getting a little frustrated with a couple of the Cubs’ Players. But I’m always happy with the team as a whole, let’s see if we can stop all these little errors.

The good news is St. Louis lost today so we are still in a ‘virtual tie’ for 1st place in the division. Here are the numbers.

Team: Wins-Losses & Percent Wins to losses.

Chicago Cubs 29-21 .580

St. Louis Cardinals 30-22 .577

(This is a “virtual tie” because they have one more win and one more loss. They just have played two games more then we did. The percentages only work out to different numbers because of the win/loss numbers)

However, we no longer are tied for the best record in baseball. Arizona holds that down pretty good now.

Arizona Diamondbacks 30-20 .600 (I actually just looked it up and The Tampa Bay Devil Rays also have the same record… They are now tied for the best record in baseball)

The Cubs got their 10,000th win today. This is all time franchise history. Only one other team has done it. the NY/SF Giants. They were fighting the Rockies up in Colorado. It went into extra innings, but the Cubs eventually won in the 10th 7-6.

They are now 15-6 for the season and still #1 in the Division. St. Louis is now 2 games behind.

Go Cubbies!

Well, we are 20 games into the season and the Cubs are 14 & 6. We are currently #1 in the Central Divison of our league. YAY! We are a game and a half ahead of St. Louis the current #2.

We won today against The New York Mets. Mind you The New York Yankees are also in Chicago, so today it’s an extra sweet deal. Both New York teams are here in Chicago. The Cubs prevailed for Chicago, let’s hope the Sox can too.

Go Chicago! Go Cubbies!

EDIT: The White Sox Lost! 9 to 5 in the 9th inning.