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Written by wrigleyville
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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It was often less than pretty and it was never easy, but the Chicago Cubs are the 2007 National League Central champs.
Here is a lengthy reminder on how we got here (you should be done by the time the playoffs start):
April 2: Cubs lose 5-1 and attend Monday Night RAW to celebrate.
April 6: Cubs beat Brewers for first (and not the last) time, providing a good part of the cushion they will need in late September.
April 9: Rickie Weeks whines that Carlos Zambrano was mean. Carlos is polite enough not to mention that Rickie spells his name like a girl.
April 13: Carlos blows a five-run lead to the Mets, apparently auditioning for the Brewers come free agency.
April 16: The first of Alfonso Soriano’s two leg injuries. Critics seem to forget his DL trips this year (and have gone silent in light of his monster September, offensively and defensively).
April 20: The Cubs seize control of last place with a 2-1 loss to the Cardinals. Happily, the defending champs will correct this throughout the year.
April 21: Cubs announce the Alfonso Soriano center field experiment is over, leaving the team with five left fielders on the roster.
April 23: The Cubs announce they will play five outfielders at once.
April 24: The Sarge gives up on the Cubs, and not for the last time.
April 25: Mark Prior’s shoulder, RIP.
May 5: Ronny is sent to Iowa, for an all-too-brief visit.
May 10: The Sarge pens a haiku for Carlos, telling him he sucks.
May 14: Dusty Baker gets a woody – and not the Woody he ruined – over a walkoff walk that dooms the Cubs.
May 31: The Sarge channels The Natural.
June 1: Big Z clocks One Nut, and momentum begins to shift.
(This is the part of the VH1 Behind the Music where they hit rock bottom…)
June 2: Lou goes nuts, gets ejected.
(Cue the inspirational music…)
June 7: The Sarge notices how slowly the roof closes as Miller Park, sparking indignation in the great state of Wisconsin.
June 8: Wrigleyville23 launches the landmark “When Will The Cubs Catch The Brewers?” contest. Overconfident Brewers bloggers mock.
June 16: Derrek Lee and Chris Young “fight,” screwing up Wrigleyville and Sarge’s fantasy teams for weeks to come as we try to guess when they will finally serve their suspensions.
June 20: One Nut is traded to San Diego, sending the Padres into a tailspin they are still trying to pull out of.
June 20: ESPN.com says Alfonso Soriano does not have one of the best 29 outfield arms in baseball. Care to revisit that?
June 24: Cubs sweep the White Sox and Rod Beck dies. The two are unrelated.
June 27: Cubs sweep the Rockies and are genuinely hot.
June 29: Aramis hits a huge home run to beat the (then) first-place Brewers.
July 1: Wrigleyville23 wins a bet and runs a Brewers blog for 24 hours. It came with free cheese curds and watery beer. We were happy to return home.
July 4: The Cubs enjoy the 4th of July in DC, but lose a baseball game.
July 12: The Sarge prays to the baseball gods for a strong second half.
July 15: The Cubs sweep the Astros.
July 16: The Cubs acquire Jason Kendall, setting the stage for the great Kendall-or-Soto debate of ’07.
July 17: Scoreboard watching begins. And doesn’t end until September 28.
July 19: Cesar Izturis is shipped to Pittsburgh, in one of the great addition by subtraction moves in the history of baseballing.
July 21: Carlos Zambrano bobblehead night is sponsored by Fisher Nuts.
July 24: A sense of doom spreads over the Cubs blogosphere as Ronny Cedeno is called up.
July 29: The curse of the 29th haunts the Brewers as the race gets very tight.
July 31: Cubs fans overwhelmingly say they prefer Ron Santo or Ronnie Woo Woo in the lineup to Ronny Cedeno.
August 2: The Cubs take over first place (for now), and Wrigleyville wins the “When Will The Cubs Catch The Brewers” contest.
August 3: Kerry Wood is back, back again. Tell a friend.
August 10: Wrigeyville23’s world headquarters relocates and the Cubs struggled. The two are not related.
August 17: Carlos re-signs with the Cubs, and Wrigleyville wins another contest. He is very smart.
August 21: The Sarge tempts the very baseball gods he prayed to earlier in the year.
August 25: Mark Prior drops in to give us all false hope.
August 30: Cubs beat the Brewers (again), as Alfonso announces his presence with authority.
September 3: Big Z is not pleased that he is booed, even when he stinks.
September 8: Big Z makes amends, though is still crazy.
September 11: For the first time in months, Wrigleyville questions whether the ’07 Cubs will make the playoffs.
September 12: Pivotal win in Houston launches a hot streak.
September 16: Seeking to solve the great Soto-or-Kendall debate of ’07, the Cubs ask the public’s help with selecting a catcher. Oh, and Wrigleyville wins another contest.
September 20: Adam Dunn whines about Wrigley Field. He is soon shut down for the year, lest he be smited by the baseball gods.
September 27: The Cubs are swept by the Marlins, but cut their magic number to two thanks to the dunderheadedness of Ned Yost.
September 28: The Cubs shut out the Reds and the Brewers lose to the Padres. And the Cubs are your 2007 National League Central champs.
Labels: Chicago Cubs
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