The Cubs were leading tonight for the first time since last Wednesday. Let's say that again. The Cubs were leading tonight for the first time since last Wednesday. Of course, it was just a quickie. Roberto Novoa came in in the eighth and gave up a triple and homer and the Cubs were back down again. The Glendon Rusch came in and gave up a three-run homer to some guy for his first major league hit. Even the nobodies are burning the Cubs these days. The loss makes it eight straight, and two on the same day. (To make matters worse, Chip Caray is doing the game. He was the former WGN TV announcer, and every time he cheered a Braves play I wanted to have him drawn and quartered.)
Granted, as I write this, the game isn't actually over. The Cubs have three more outs, but they don't come from behind. They can barely get the lead.
Lee hasn't played in the last three games, Patterson is batting .133 since June 11. Aramis Ramirez is starting to swing a good bat, but he can't do it by himself. The season may have slipped away in the past week, a great feeling going into the All-Star break. Figure the Cubs will have to at least match this losing streak with a winning streak of the same length, and win maybe six or seven straight again in the second half. Two winning streaks between six and eight games in the last two and a half months? Dukes of Hazzard has a better chance of winning an Oscar for Best Picture.
Looks like it's time to start gearing up for Nebraska football, a process that will be aided by the release next Tuesday of EA Sports NCAA Football 06, where I will, against all odds, take a young Cornhusker team to numerous national titles and probably win the Heisman.
Here's hoping that the hurricane currently pounding Jamaica rains out the entire Cubs-Marlins series. That would be eire.
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