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Ahhh I had set up the stas so well on A-Ram but in the posting it threw them off big time, whatever though HE IS THE MAN LATE IN GAMES WE GET IT, RIGHT.

So here we are about to start up after the break and not a whole lot has changed Standings wise, Cubs are currnetly sitting in a tie with the Angels for the best record in Baseball, while still sitting atop the National League. Kosuke and Gio went into the game and played well but, I'd say the preformance of the Cub pitching staff that was also invited to the All-Star Game was the best outing for Cub All-Stars, all of them Zambrano, Marmol and Demp all recording SO's on the American leagues finest, with Dempster coming in as a set-up man, in the late in the game to only SO the side. So the Cubs are looking good and are still poised to take the N.L. Central and quite possibly the N.L. With dominating pithing from the likes of Big Z, Demp, and now Harden who in his Cub debut looked phenomenal S'ing O 10, for his third career double-digit strikeout game, and threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings. With the addition of Harden The Cubs are now in a position to have oe of the best 1-2-3 punch combos come Playoff Time, plus the likes of T.Lilly and J. Marquis rounding out the rotation and further more the great close out ability in pitchers in Marmol, Wood, and Eyre this current pitching staff could be the most lethal entering the league after the break. Who knows though they have got a whole second half to play and play hard they must to even assure them anything come August. The injury bug struck them, in forcing the hottest hitter at the time in Alfoso Soriano to warm some bench, due to a broken hand, but right when things looked bad, "A-Ram the Man" stepped up to not only provide some needed offense, but to step up at the most clutch of times, late innings in close games he is posting some incredible numbers: G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG 26 32 9 9 1 0 4 9 22 8 9 0 0 .439 .688 .281 Already knowing that A-Ram has stepped up to be the leader in the clubhouse, it is beginnig to look like the offense will be heating up with the hot summer heat. Only thing better than A-Rams clutch ability is knowing that Fonso is hoping to come back into this already HOT lineup just two series in after the break, he is currnetly hoping to be back on the field come July 24th against The Marlins, at home ofcourse where The Cubs are still one of the hardset teams to beat sporting a very impressive 37-12 record in those oh so friendly confines of Wrigley. These Cubs are still leading if not top three teams in pretty much every offensive catagory that matters, match that to the pitching we can only hope to expcet out of the Pitching staff that currnetly boasts no weak links and we have the makings of something special on the North Side this year, we can only hope.

Can someone please vote on this:

http://www.fannation.com/throwdowns/show/192257

Does anyone know if we offered the Indians anything for C.C.. If you ask me, it's unacceptable for a team in our division to get the #1 pitcher (that is up for trade) without a fight.

I am writing a colum on something at all hours of the day, and night. Lots of time on my hands, sure if you figure between work, school, and my ultimate passion of sports writing yeah my day is filled with the things I love to do.

i dont know why or how you wrote that long comment but you must have lots of free time

Well I figured since the comment on The Cubs was about aone month ago I'd keep it going on a monthly basis. So basically all is well, that was easy enough. Seriously though The Cubbies are doing pretty much everything right the list of what they are leading the league in would actually be easier to find the stats they are not leading in, I mean really almost every viable stat they are at least in the top three if not out right first. (Hits, Runs Scored, OBP%,2B's, RBI's, Total Bases, BB's,Avg. and SLG%) mind you The Cubs are not number one in all thses stats but are top 3 if not number one overall like I said earlier. So with all that good ball play it is no surprise they have the best record in baseball at 33-21, and are seemingly right on thier way to defending thier National League Central Title. So as for the first days of June all seems to be going aaaaaa-lright.