As we all in Chicagoland know pitchers and catchers report to Arizona soon for spring training. This is the time where many Chicagoans can envision that idealist our year for our Cubs. But I doubt this year is our year. This cycle happens every year and we still produce lousy teams. What happens is this: The Cubs make one or two off-season moves and fans think the players the Cubs get are going to take them to the Promised Land. Occasionally these moves are big moves occasionally they are not so big and fans blow them out of proportion. This year our major move was getting Alfonso Soriano. Then we signed Ted Lilly a lifetime five hundred pitcher but apparently this was good enough to get the fans believing this year is our year. Then spring training happens and everyone’s hopes are still up. Generally one or two of our major pitchers suffer injuries during the season. Then once the regular season happens we have a really mediocre or bad April, but everyone says its too early to count us out. They keep saying this at the end of May and in June, but by July everyone realizes that this is not our year but maybe next year. I think the Cubs will produce a team that can compete for the Central Division and I think they will either get second or first in the division. The division race will be close, and since it’s a fairly weak division the Cubs have a shot. In order for the Cubs to contend they have to have a good offense because Prior and Wood will probably both be injured. They have to beat up on the Pirates and the Reds and try to win the series with the Cardinals. If the Cubs can do that and play .500 ball against the rest of the league we can win the division. I truly believe that this year will make it to the playoffs, but….This year is not our year. There are two many things that can cause a team to not win the world series.
