But I agree with his sentiment that this team isn't good enough to win the NL Division. At this exact moment anyway. That doesn't mean that the Cubs won't make a move or 2 before the trade deadline, but right now, no way is this team good enough to win the NL DIvision crown. It's obviously capable of making the playoffs but it won't be easy. Brewers and Cubs are as evenly matched right now as it can get and it's going to be a dogfight, which will be fun. This season will be fun no doubt. If that's all you really expect out of a season, than this will be a great season for you. If you expect more, much more out of a Chicago Cubs season, than it'll be a fun season but ultimately end in disappointment.

could easily say these things about any teams best three hitters. If any teams best three hitters don't perform as expected the team will suffer.

Mariotti is simply saying that as long as Derrek, Soriano, and Ramirez hit, the Cubs will be fine. No s&^t, really? Can i get paid to write such insightful sports columns.

I am truly surprised that someone has not tried to kill that lowly, trash talking, waste of semen and oxygen. I did thoroughly enjoy his defensive comebacks to the Trib "punk" on the ST.

You could just hear him sniveling like the rat balls that he is. That was worth the read.

n/t

... the World Series would end in mid-November and then you'd risk playing the most important games of the season in REALLY crappy weather.

In the late '70s or early '80s, MLB tried scheduling as many games as possible in Calif., Tex, Atl, and domes. Weather-wise, it worked out fine. The problem is that no team wants a preponderence of home games in April, as it is the poorest month attendance-wise. The Calif. teams complained loudly about the lost revenue, and the experiment was scrapped.

that the return of scheduled double headers would be necessary with my proposal.

This is now the point where someone tells me that there is a stipulation in the CBA where there can't be scheduled double headers.

I really liked it. The acid test, though, is "watching" the game live -- which I won't be doing at 4 am MT! Perhaps, if it isn't too much trouble, you could post both for the first 2 or 3 weeks then put it up for a vote.

I agree and understand where you're coming from. It just bothers me that mainstream news has sunk to that level of sensational BS. I hate seeing it, and I hate people gobbling it up and asking for seconds - though, I admit gobbling it up and complaining about it is almost just as bad. I usually avoid reading any of his or the other sports opinion columns in both papers just to avoid all the BS, but today I clicked for some reason and then remembered why I try not to do that.

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Baseball/article/350031

Sounds like a good clubhouse guy