And now the very first Cub Angst Report of the new baseball season, a recurring Blob feature much like the Battle for the Cellar, only probably not recurring as much because the Cubs are usually really good these days, and the Blob's baseball team, the cellar-battling Pittsburgh Pirates, are cruddy.
Anyway, we're four games into the season with the Cubs, and the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments has already begun for Cubs fans. This is because the Cubs are off to a 1-3 start, and it's been an even more unlovely1-3 start than most 1-3 starts.
For instance, the pitching has been terrible. The Cubs actually scored 10 runs the other day and lost. They've given up eight runs apiece in their other two losses. Since opening the season with a 12-4 win at Texas, they've been outscored 27-16. That means they're giving up almost seven runs per game so far.
And then there was last night.
When the Cubs were especially sucky.
The good news, if you can call it that, is that six of the eight runs they gave up in an 8-0 loss to Atlanta were unearned. This is because the Cubs committed six errors. Anthony Rizzo committed two on one play. At the plate, meanwhile, they stranded 10 baserunners in the first four innings and managed just four baserunners thereafter.
This from a team that was supposedly refocused, recharged and rarin' to go after losing the wild-card game to the Brewers last fall.
Now they're awful. They're horrible. They're going to be the worst team in the NL Central, even worse than the cruddy Pirates.
Well. Until they win a couple, that is.
Then everything will be fine.
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