Busy Weekend, All-Stars, C.C. trade....

Welcome back once again, to my blog on the Chicago Cubs.  If any of my regulars haven't noticed I now put a hit counter on my site that counts the number of page uploads to different computers.  Right now it's at 36 which is not a bad weekend , yes. of course I would like it to be 100 or more that read my blog over the weekend but it takes time and I've only started this blog a little over two weeks ago, so not a bad start if you ask me.  Plus I didn't install the counter till Friday morning, and it doesn't count multiple loads by the same computer, so you can't just load my page go back and load it again to make it go up, it has to be a different computer to count, in that short of a time, but you can come back a couple times a day spread out over the day if you want.  I just think it's really interesting to see how many people read my blog, and please everyone leave me comments I love to read what you think about my blogs whether they are good or bad reviews.  Thanks in advance.  Anyway back to what you came here to read Chicago Cubs news and my thoughts on it.  First off. All-star voting has been completed and we have three starters representing the Cubs and a total of seven total players heading to the Bronx on July 15th.  I think it's great that we have that many players going in the teams name, actually I think Theriot and Derosa deserved to go also, but hey every team does have to represented and that's how it goes.  I mean Kyle Lohse of the Cardinals, who has 10 wins already isn't going, Evan Longoria, Jermaine Dye and Josh Beckett didn't make it, so there are alot of names out there that are deserving but not in the mix.  Soriano starting in LF (if healthy), Fukudome in RF, Soto behind the plate, and on the bench ready to go in you have Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano, Ryan Dempster, and Kerry Wood, and let's not forget Sweet Lou gets to go taking the place of recently fired Willie Randolph.  You know what's in the back of everyone's mind, is that it would be nice for the NL to finally win one this year and give homefield advantage to the NL in the World Series.  Which Big "Z" hinted around to earlier when he hit the DL saying he would love to contribute and try to win, and if healthy will play in the mid-summer classic.  Well win or lose I just hope the Cubs can keep up this first place baseball pace and finish the second half of the season the way they did the first half in FIRST PLACE! 

BREAKING NEWS- CC Sabathia to Miluakee for the top prospect in the Brew Crew's organization and two other minor leaguers.  WOW I thought they got him pretty cheap, and so early it's unbelievable.  I mean he might even get a start before the All-Star game.  Well that puts a little more pressure on our Cubbies, now that the Brewers picked up CC and moved into a tie for second place with St. Louis at only three and a half games back.  The Cubs have alot of games left against both teams and it should play out to be an interesting second half.  But I do think overall that the Cubs have the better ball club and will win the Central, even with no help from a move before the trade deadline.  But more than likely they will make a move, we will just have to sit back and wait to see who and when it will be.