May 6, 2016: Let Me Get the W

My son is getting older.  Just turning 4 years old about a month ago, the regular every day naps are a thing of the past.  They still do happen, but not as frequently.  So, the days when he doesn’t nap, he’s in bed at a good time.  The days when he does nap, he’s up late with Mom and Dad.  He was up late last night.  This was a good thing, because he got to see the end of the Cubs victory.  When I told him the Cubs were about to win, he said “Let me get the W”…

He ran into his room, and came out with the W flag; the one that Comcast made last year during the playoff run.  The one that hangs on a door handle in his room.  He ran out and laid it nicely on the couch, waiting for that last out.  And as the last out was made, and the camera panned the crowd, I said look!  Look at all the W flags.  That flag sure has been getting a lot of use this year.

21 times to be exact.  21 times in 27 games ain’t too shabby.  So the next test of the year, the 2nd best team in the NL, got their first taste.  The Cubs won 5-2.  They bumped their historic run differential up to 96; damn Travis Wood… it could have been 98. 

It’s crazy.  We have a 162 game season plus some hopefully, and I’m already tracking their record game by game.  It’s fun.  And now this whole run differential thing… are we really going to be tracking that the whole season too?  Haha…  one thing is sure, this Cubs team looks like a beast.  They’ve looked pretty good before…

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Has this Cubs team ever looked THIS good?  I remember another year, 2008, when the Cubs finished the season with the best record in baseball.  Was THIS the year?  Uh, no.  Another heartbreaker in the postseason is what transpired.  But, we’re not going there either.

2016 is a new year.  You can say it’s still the Cubs, and stuff happens, but it’s really not.  It’s a different team… different manager.  Now stuff will still happen, that’s for sure… it already has, but this team was built with depth… to sustain through the stuff. 

It’s only May 6th.  We’re only 17% through the season.  If the remaining 83% looks anything like the first part, then we’ll be talking about needing only 12 more W’s.  Yes, we should celebrate each W… they all count.  We should track their win loss record regardless of month.  We should follow that historic run differential.  I hope my son grabs that W flag for every Cubs win he is up for.  We all hope this is building towards something… that final W in late October/November.  Until then, let’s enjoy this ride…thus far, there has never been one like it.