Derrek Lee surprised me in 2009. Never did I think he would put up the kind of numbers he did. His 2009 season was a drastic improvement over his 2008 season, with 15 more home runs, 21 more RBI, a 15 point improvement in his batting average, and an OBP that went from .361 in 2008 to .393 in 2009. The reason this surprised me so much was because he did all this at the age of 33. Now, in real life 33 years old is not considered an old man at all. In baseball years however, that ...
It's downright hard to be a Cubs fan. There, I said it. It's impossible to sugarcoat it. That's just the way it is for Cubs fans. Hard. Really hard. Surely if you have paid even just a little attention to baseball in your life you understand why. Actually you haven't had to pay attention to baseball at all to understand why. The Chicago Cubs are the butt of countless jokes due to the fact that they have not won a World Series in over 100 years. I can go over all the asinine reasons people bring up as the ...
