Baseball in the Daytime: 5-16-08

With 7 on route to the Front Range, and Colorado's stringent driving-whilst-blogging laws being what they are, it's up to this complimentary leg o' the Iron Triangle to step once more unto the breach, dear friends (that's Shakespeare!) So I present to the three of you, and whatever residents of Dubai and Sri Lanka are surfing for bikini porn, your fix of sunshine roundball.


It's the start of interleague play tonight, and there's only one intraleague (notice that? Inter- versus intra-? You won't get that kind of grammatical exactitude from your local sports section, kids) match on the schedule--and it just happens to feature my favorite squad, the baby bears from Chicago's north side, against the historically-dominant-but-now-just-barely mediocre Bucs of Suck City.

Pittsburgh @ Chicago Cubs 2:20 Eastern Standard Time

The Cubs are in the lead in a surprisingly good National League Central division, but we fans have been here before--like, not very often, but still. The home team is trotting out youngster Sean Patrick Gallagher, who you might be surprised is from Boston, and who also sports a shudder-making 6.48 ERA and 1.68 WHIP. Eek. Good thing I picked him up in our fantasy league this morning.

But I have faith that he'll at least have a shot at the win. The Cubs are currently hot, having won their last two and seven of their last 10, and they're facing the eminently beatable Tom Gorzelanny, who claims an uninspiring ERA of 5.97 and looks like Jeff Francis' dumbass older brother.

I see something of a slugfest brewing in this matchup--and if it does, hopefully it will feature multiple dongs from Geovany Soto, Aramis Ramirez and Nate McLouth. You can guess why I chose those three. Fantasy baseball has destroyed every last bit of my sense of right and wrong.