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Your guest host while Supertramp is splitting time between Miller Park North and South is Joe Steve. You can find him regularly bitching about the Cubs and relishing in the fact that he is no longer slinging season ticket packages in the front office for the Crew over at All Things Steve.

It's almost game time and Kapler is your starting CF hitting in the two hole today, but before we get to first pitch [ed note: would have been before first pitch, which Weeks hammered onto Waveland, but firefox puked again. DAMN YOU MLB.COM!], I want to rant a bit more about the Cubs.

Yeah, it's really a non-story and it has roots in the Dusty Baker Cub era, but you would think that Big Z, the $91.5M man that he is, would figure out how to stop these cramps from happening. I don't know if the outcome of Monday's game would have been any different since both starters were hummin' along, but if your 'Ace of Aces' can't stay off the web or eat a few more bananas before a start there has to be some concern. I tend to give Sheets the benefit of the doubt with his odd injuries, but I know if I were a Cubs fan (my God, I just wrote that!?) this stuff with Z would be getting real old, real quick.

And finally, I hate unnecessary curtain calls, especially ones at Wrigley. My biggest complaint when people compare Wrigley to Fenway is the knowledge of the casual fan in each stadium. I realize all people in a ballpark aren't necessarily die hards, but Fenway doesn't erupt every time someone pops one up to short and they know when and when not to throw out a curtain call.

Fukudome, I'll give him the well earned curtain call after hammering Gagne's meatball to right-center, but I promise you he will get a fair share of unearned calls this year. I'm going to put the over/under of ridiculous curtain calls at Wrigley at 17. No real way of confirming this assumption, but I know you get my drift.

End rant and end of 1, good guys on top. Enjoy.