Sweep

The season may be barely a week old, but a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals is worth celebrating no matter what the time of year. Last night Cubs' Catcher Michael Barrett hit a grand slam off Cards' closer Jason Isringhausen in the 8th to put the Cubs ahead on the way to an eventual 8-4 win, despite that fact that a tornado tossed a tree into his parent's living room in suburban Atlanta on Friday (no one was hurt). I've watched the replay of that grand slam on the Cubs' website about five or six times now. Thank God for the Internets.

It's great to have baseball back again, and better yet baseball in Springtime, when hope still lives. Soon we will enter the dog days of Summer, and in all likelihood the Cubs' questionable offense and oft-injured pitching staff will not be able to keep pace as we lurch toward the harsh reality of Autumn. But for now it is April, the Cardinals are leaving Wrigley with three straight losses, and all is right with the world.