Week 1: Eh...not so much

The season is finally underway! We've got Lou Piniella at the helm and Alfonso Soriano in center. In the spirit of optimism we'll forgive the slow start. Soriano is bound to catch fire at some point. The guy hit 46 homers last year on a terrible team with no one around him for opposing pitchers to fear. Zambrano will be alright too. It's just early season jitters.

Look at it this way- they aren't getting our hopes up too high like usual. By this time last year they were already streaking to the division lead. Then Derek Lee ran into a second basemen that was supposed to be playing for us and fractured his wrist. Hey, we're Cubs fans. It's nothing new right? The onion had some fun at the Cubs expense last year in this article. Really, it's priceless satire. So maybe a 3-3 beginning to the season is just what the Cubs need. There are a lot of new faces out there and a whole lot of games to go.

On the L.A. front, my Comcast sportsnet has been blacking the games out and WGN just doesn't carry as many as it used to. I'd better start looking for bars with massive sattelite packages. Anyone?

If all else fails, we have some quality Lou Piniella temper tantrums to look forward to. He's the Jim Mora of baseball- ""Playoffs?! Playoffs?!?! I just hope we can win a game"

-Geoff Rynex