I know that we are only a week into the 2007 baseball season, but what I’ve seen from the Cubs does not lead me to believe it will be any different than the 2006 baseball season. Granted my MLB.tv subscription has been nothing but a nightmare, and I haven’t seen one pitch of the Cubs season, I have followed along online.

Take today’s game for example. They faced Chris Sampson. Who? Yeah exactly. He just held the Cubs to 3 hits over 5 innings. In the final inning, which incidentally is the only inning the Cubs scored in, Aramis Ramirez struck out swinging and Michael Barrett struck out looking, then pinch hitting Matt Murton popped out to first. All with men on base. I feel like I’m in a time warp. Can we please move the runners along. I know that the team is built around the home run and big hitters, but this team isn’t good enough to just rely on that. They need to be able to score small runs, especially against division rivals.

But today, the hitting wasn’t even close to as bad as the defense. 3 errors, all by former Gold Glove winner Cesar Izturis. What pitcher would feel at ease with that behind. Hopefully we can write it off as a bad game. Let’s move one.

One thing that I’m not totally sure about though is how Lou Pinella keeps saying that the Cubs offense will come alive when it warms up. Nevermind the racial and cultural aspects of surrounding his comments about the Latin players on his team. This logic is just stupid. First of all, both teams play in the same weather, and secondly, if this team is built to win a World Series as everyone seems to claim, they better be able to hit in cold weather. Octobers in Chicago are not known for their warmth.

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