Cubsplosion!!!!!

 5 Home Runs!  Count em! 1-2-3-4-5!  For your 2013 Chicago Cubs last night!  Two by Soriano, who's been hot as a pistol, batting .390 with 7 homeruns and 16 RBI's in the last 10 games.  

A 3 run shot by Darwin Barney, who's been batting .132 during that same stretch. 

One by Starlin Castro, .256 with 2 dingers in the last 10.

 And one by Anthony Rizzo, .158 in the last 10 games.  

The Cubs overall have gone 7-3 in this last 10 game stretch.  So yes folks, we are in one of those coveted periods of a Cubs baseball season when Alfonso Soriano carries the team.  Let's hope the other 3 men follow suit.  We're all waiting for Barney, Rizzo and Castro to get it together.... But right now....It's Soriano time!!

And hilariously, it was all witnessed by this awesome mulleted man!  Here he is cheering for Soriano's first homer of the night!

I call this hairstyle, the "Coonskin Cap"!

What is all amounted to last night anyway, was 7 runs for the Cubs on 9 hits, while the Angels only managed 2 runs on a Poo Holes homerun, which I correctly predicted while walking to the ballpark.  Once a Cub killer.....you know the rest....But It was nice to hear the smattering of boos around Wrigley for Albert as he confidently strode to the plate.  Being such a damned muggy night in the confines last night didn't make it easy to boo or cheer, or make any sort of physical movement.  For once, I wished we had an air conditioned stadium like Miller Park.  So damned muggy, but I booed all the same.  I love booing Poo Holes.  It's cathartic, and a past time I am loathe to give up just because he's in the AL now.  Boooooooo......

The wind barely touched my neck as it blew down Waveland....cooling me down to a heat index of 106 degrees.....

Now, in the false reality, known as the Twitterverse, I'm seeing people actually complaining that the Cubs have been playing better baseball.  Ruining their draft chances, by being a middle of the pack team, instead of god awful team like the Marlins or Astros.  Let me tell you something.  The draft barely matters.  Lot's of high picks don't make the majors, and tons of low picks do.  Sure your chances might slightly increase with a super high pick, but until one of these kids puts on a major league uniform, you just don't know what you're going to get.  For example, have you ever heard of Ryan Harvey?  No?  Exactly.  He was picked #1 by the Cubs, 6th overall in 2003.  How bout someone you may have heard of, 2007's Josh Vitters,  who in his 99 MLB At Bats has hit .121 with 2 homeruns.  He's not tearing the cover off the ball in Iowa either, batting .270 with 3 dingers this year. Sure....we picked Shawon Dunston in 1982, but Vance Lovelace the year before, and Tony Woods the year after.  Who?  Exactly.  So for all you nay sayers who want to watch the Cubs suck so you can pick higher.  You're ridiculous.  What about creating a winning culture?  Some momentum towards the future?  That is just as important as anything.  Rizzo and Castro are having terrible years.  What's going to pick them up off the ground?  A draft pick?  No.  Winning, winning and more winning.  I for one hope we get back to .500.  Everyone picked us to finish last this year.  Screw em! I hope we finish 3rd because the Cardinals go on a 53 game losing streak.  Draft picks don't win championships.  Winning teams do.  Period.  

Winning teams tend to have a healthy mix of youth with experience, veterans, and a hotshot rookie or two.  It's about balance, culture, focus, and execution.  How will the Cubs achieve this?  Well, youth with experience.  Castro, Rizzo, Barney.  Veterans?  Who knows?  Stick with Schierholz?  DeJesus? Soriano?  The man can obviously still hit.  And his fielding has genuinely improved.  Question is, will he take less money, like a 1987 Dawson contract.  And who will the hot shot rookie be?   Baez? Almora? Who the hell knows?  Draft pick Shmaft pick.

More winning baseball to come tonight!  CJ wilson, 8-6, 3.49 vs Jeff Samarefbvjhwev$#6njn, 5-8, 3.54.  On paper, they beat us by .05 runs.  I'll be there as long as I can hook up 10$ seats.  Feeling cheap these days....or broke...both...but if all goes well with Stub Hub...I'll be doing this later....

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