Cubs/Twins Recap

Well there really isn’t much good to say about the games I went to Friday and Saturday night.  It can be summed up by saying the Cubs were atrocious.  I do have some thoughts on the games though.

• I kept holding a thread of hope for the Cubs’ season, but that thread is completely cut now.  No matter how good Derek Lee is when he returns, he’s not going to fix all the problems with this team.
• In Saturday’s game, the Cubs had runners on first and second with no outs.  They didn’t end up scoring a single run in that inning, or the rest of the game for that matter.  There’s no way that would have happened to a good team.
• Mark Prior did look better in his start this weekend at least.  Of course, after giving up six runs in the first inning of his first start, anything will look better. 
• At least one third of the people at Metrodome this weekend were Cubs fans.  Too bad the Cubs didn’t give us much to cheer about.  A few times there were some sections starting a “Let’s go Cubbies *clap clap – clapclapclap* cheer, but it didn’t help much.
• You know the game is boring when “the wave” generates more cheers than the game itself.  (It made it around the dome a full two times.)
• I was impressed with Phil Nevin, and I think he was a decent acquisition for the Cubs.  On Friday he was really crushing the ball.  He had a solo HR and hit two other balls to the warning track.  I think they would have been home runs in Wrigley.  On Saturday, he was 3–4, with a trio of base hits. 
• The Twins’ closer, Joe Nathan is pretty cool.  His intro song when he came into the game Saturday night was “Stand Up and Shout” from the movie Rock Star.  That’s a great stadium type anthem, and was probably another one of my favorite moments of the game Saturday.  “Stand up and shoooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!”