summer
starts today and all sonny wants to talk about is the chicago cubs.
he updates me every day. cubs won he says when he calls. and i say yeah.
he's excited because the cubs are the hottest and most exciting team in baseball. after much harrassment, my favorite team finally did the right thing and got some damn pitching. dont give them too much credit, they didnt actually know they were getting pitching, they were just getting pitchers - somehow retreads like Jeff Fassero, Tom Gordon, and Todd Van Poppel decided to peak at the same time as newbies Julian Taverez and Kyle Farnsworth. Meanwhile Jon Leiber and Kerry Wood are healthy - therefore studly and Kevin Tapani picked this year as his second comeback season - who could forget '98 when he was 19-9 the last time the Cubs made the playoffs. lets forget his 6 wins in '99 and 8 last year. currently Tapani leads the Cubs with 8 victories. Wood, who has 7 wins, already has 120 k's and how can you ignore Farnsworth who has 55 k's in 33 innings of middle relief? and then there's Sammy. i hate to say it but i am starting to believe in this team. rondell white will hit 30 hrs this year, eric young will steal 40 bases, ricky gutierrez - back from injury - is on pace to hit .300 and jack 20 hrs, and as soon as he comes back bill mueller will add ... sonny is laughing at me. he cant believe that i am starting to believe. but i am. sammy hit two homers today. beat the shit outta the cardinals. one of the homers was a grand slam. they swept the equally surprising and equally hot minnesota twins last weekend. the only things missing are harrey caray and mark grace. i say we trade harrey's annoying grandson chip for gracey. even though it's fun to watch the quasi- voodoo rituals from 2nd-year firstbaseman Julio Zuleta who put food ontop of the team's bats in the dugout when he sensed that the bats were "hungry". whatever zuleta put on sosa's bat he oughtta bottle: sammy has cranked out four homers and has hit .417 over the last week and has hit .375 over the last month. scary thing is: sosa only gets better as the season gets older. what will i do when the cubs win the world series this year? i will cry. and then i will have a big fucking party. best part about this year - other than the cubs being so good? no one else really is. ha! let's have a great summer. |
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