Worried Yet????

Are the great fans of Wrigley starting to panic yet?  I'm not! Tell you what, I am definitley scoreboard watching, so I'm not as comfortable as I was feeling three weeks ago, but I'm still very confident in our Cubbies.  Yes, both St. Louis and the now surging Brewers (who have won 6 straight since the break) are nipping at our heels in the central division race.  But are really any of us surprised?  Would the Cubs have it any other way, then to put their loving fans through a little bit of stress?  Yes, St. Louis is still a major surprise but we all knew that the Brewers were going to be there one way or another.  I really don't think that it would be a comfortable season for us fans if we didn't have things to worry about, yes it would be nice, but admit it!, absolutely uncomfortable if we didn't have some drama to discuss about our team.  But good news ahead Cubs fans, Alfonso Soriano is on his way back and boy do we need his bat in our for some reason dormant offense.  This team who was seemingly leading every major league offensive catagory at one time or another has hit a rough patch, well more like a rough field..lol.  Their league leading team average has dropped and as a team their only batting .251 this month, Ouch!.  But possibly as soon as todays game the third and final game against the D-backs this regular season, Soriano will be back into the line-up and hopefully bring a big boost to this team.  This is for all those Soriano nay-sayers earlier in the year and last year when we were winning without him, since he went on the DL on June 11, the Cubs are 16-18!!  Even when he goes 0-4, or 1-5 his presence in this line-up just plain and simple makes pitchers take a different approach. I think you will see D-Lee and Aramis both come out of their slumps and all the bats liven up when we get the free swinging Soriano back hopefully Wednesday.   Then we can put together a nice little win streak with some big series looming in the not to distant future, 13 divisional games in a row. We have 4 road games against the Brewers, who are always tough in Miller Park, and the following homestand we have 3 against Pit, and another three against Houston, and finally a 3 game series against our bitter rivals the St. Louis Redbirds.  So thank the baseball gods for timing, we are getting Soriano back just in time to make a great impact and hopefully beat up on some division rivals and give us some well deserved breathing room in the standings.  Till next time this is Fro and Go Cubs Go!