Baseball betting: will the Cubs start winning or will Dusty get dusted?
The Chicago Cubs are on a mini two game
winnings streak at the expense of the inept Washington Nationals and is
this cause for optimism, or do we throw in the towel for the 98th year
on the Cubs.
Yes the story has been told far too
many times about the last Chicago Cub’s team to win the World Series in
1908 and most sportsbooks have them at 50-1 to win the October Classic,
while their South Side neighbors the White Sox are 3-1 to repeat.
Yesterday things got so bad at Wrigley
that a drunken female fan through a ball from the stands, that just missed
taking the head off of slumping Jacques Jones.
The Cubbies now invite flame thrower
Kerry Wood back to the nest on Thursday and considering that have been
without Wood, Mark Prior, Wade Miller and Derrek Lee, for an extended period,
12-22 is not that bad.
Wood seemed to be realizing his potential
when he made the All-Star team in 2003, finishing with a majors-best 266
strikeouts and a 14-11 record. But he went just 8-9 in 22 starts in 2004,
spending nearly two months on the disabled list.
Last season he was 3-4 with a 4.23
ERA in 21 games. Wood made three trips to the DL, missing about three months,
and even pitched out of the bullpen for the first time in his career, making
11 relief appearances, because of shoulder problems.
Wood's rehab was pushed back after
minor knee surgery in early March. He made two minor league rehab starts
and threw 85 pitches in five innings for Triple-A Iowa on May 12.
The Cubs so have a starter hitting
over .300 with Todd Walker the closest at .298 and Juan Pierre has been
awful from the leadoff spot. His on base percentage of .276 is downright
embarrassing and multi-million dollar a year players Jones and Aramis Ramirez
have combined for just 34 RBI’s.
They travel across town this weekend
and hopefully they learn a thing or two from the White Sox and maybe Dusty
should takes some notes on how to manage by Ozzie Guillen!
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