CubsChic

So Blanco goes down and Miles comes up. Soto is just about ready to come back, so maybe Theriot’s bruised arm will now necessitate a trip to the DL. It seems like the Cubs just can’t keep everyone healthy this year. They’ve put 14 different guys on the DL so far this season. Yet they’re hanging around first place, in fact in first place by just a smidgen over the Cardinals.

Last night it looked like the Cubs saw that St. Louis had already lost so they didn’t care that much about winning. They looked like they were phoning it in. That wasn’t good enough against the sad Reds and certainly won’t be enough against the Rockies, who have been coming on strong. At least the Cubs have a travel day today, so they can get to Denver and relax while the Rockies just lost another game in Philly today and now have to fly home.

I didn’t post about the new lefty pitchers we got from Pittsburgh because I didn’t know much about them (and was too busy to write an intelligent post). Looks so far to be a good deal, even if we had to give away Hart in the deal. Good lefties are hard to find. Gorzelanny was the big question mark in that deal and he just threw a wonderful game the other night to get the win in his first start in years. Let’s just hope Lilly comes back good as new and we don’t have to lean on Gorzelanny for too long.

We’re coming to the home stretch of the season so I’ll try to get better about my daily posts. Many of us are scoreboard watching so there’s lots to talk about. Comments are always welcome. I encourage discussion between my readers in the comments section.