I am SO tired of the 100 year thing. You won't see me mention it, probably ever.

And so it begins...

unfortunately, besides Zambrano and Dome, everyone looked like utter crap and I'm very discouraged.

Theriot looked horrendous and proved and will prove soon enough, how he's not a regular MLB player and certainly not a lead off hitter. What a relief the Cubs didn't pull off that trade for Roberts. That would've been the stupidest thing they could have ever done.

Soriano apparently will never stop swinging at off speed pitches in the dirt.

Lee look absolutely terrible at the plate today. I'm officially concerned.

Ramirez had some hard hit balls and I'm not concerned with him at all. He will have a big year.

Soto looked the same he did in ST and that is absolutely clueless at the plate.

Pie, well, looked like the overhyped prospect that he is, showing no plate discipline and susceptible to fastball in.

Dome and Zambrano looked great today but other than that, poop (Cedeno!).

I know I know, it's only 1 game and the first of the year and no I'm not giving up, but if I had to change anything about this team, it's Theriot. He's not an everyday MLB player. He will prove it, over and over again this year unfortunately.

Although the Pirates have not been +.500 for 15 yrs, I still hear 100 yrs, or Steve Bartman all game long. I had enough of it as well.

I think we all know what the solution is though..

Half of their copy is already written. One more reason why I've sloughed off print media.

Rick's a good guy. He's just doing his job.
FWIW, the AP treats their sports writers like garbage. If I had a guess, I'd say they work like 60 hours a week and have to cover everything, from college sports to baseball to basketball to hockey to tennis to pga to everything in between and make it seem like they know what they're talking about even if they don't. That's not as rare as you would think since they get hardly any prep time beforehand. They don't get beats like a newspaper reporter and often are put to things at the last minute. I'm giving old Rick a break here.
That said, I'm just as annoyed with this 100-year crap as anybody. But we'd better get accustomed to it.
Also, no I'm not trying to swell sympathy for sports writers. Their job kicks ass; we all know this. Let's just not just bash the guy and call him a hack is all I ask.

Thought I'd start out this post with one of the grand opens of all time! This, essentially is what the AP writer did.

I am currently writing/anchoring radio news as a part of my latest gig. I have many years of such experience on my resume. This is sophmoric writing with an open and close that he must have bought at Wal-Mart in the " cliche," department, next to the cat litter. This wouldn't make the cut at Journalism 101.

As CubsBall has just pointed out -- this is not a story that called for a recital of the team's history. But, perhaps the writer just discovered the Cubs past, for all I know.

I will call them as I see them, and this is journalistic crap, and, sadly -- it's evident all the time, even at the network level.