Spring Starts -

The best Cubs team of my lifetime (part 3 or 4) are now starting their Spring Training regmine. I realize I'm in the minority for feeling this way, but I am extremely confident about their chances this year.

Look at it this way -- the Cubs were a 97 win team last year, and in that time they have actually gotten nothing but better. Bradley's an improvement over Edmonds, Fontenot should be an upgrade over the '09 version of DeRosa (although neither Fontenot NOR DeRo himself will match Mark's production last year) and the bullpen and rotations should be improved.

Meanwhile, every other team in the NL Central got worse. I'm not saying that it will be a cake walk for the Cubs, nor will it be a milk run. But this could be the first 100 win Cubs team of any of our lifetimes. And that would be pretty effin' sweet.

Fickle readers

The other day on another blog, a reader complained because we'd posted twice in a short period on a topic he didn't care about. My general take on is that that kind of person is a douchebag who obviously doesn't appreciate what we do. I responded by threatening a third post on the topic and two days later this jackass posted another comment, this time about how I'd ridiculed him and invited him to look elsewhere.

My mistake was allowing this fucktard to work me into a shoot, but I honestly wouldn't be upset if that piece of shit never found my blog again. The thing is that when a blog is fortunate enough to have readers, we appreciate them but we do not bow down to them. We enjoy interacting with them but the day I let a reader dictate what I write about like he/she is entitled - rather than requests, or suggests - is the day I quit doing this.

And any time somebody tells me NOT to write about something, you can believe that it's exactly what I WILL write about.

Every day I'm going to post a photoshop on this page ... enjoy.

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