Bonds vs. Cubs

July 16th, 2007

Cubs; ESPN; 7:05 PM ET; vs. Giants; Lincecum, 4-2, 4.63 ERA vs. Hill, 5-6, 3.81 ERA

The title, I feel, is fitting, as the Giants have been having an off year to say the least. Barry Bonds may be the only reason people go to Giants games. I don't know, and I don't care. I care about the Cubs and how we may be damaged by Barry. The good news about this 4 game series? 3 lefties start against a slumping lefty. Throw a Zambrano in there and you have yourself a decent chance of a sweep.

From there we go to the Arizona Diamondbacks, who nobody even seems to be giving a chance in the 2nd half. They are 49-45 now, and something that will help them in this series is reigning NL Cy Young winner Brandon Webb. He starts against the Cubs in game 1 against Jason Marquis. Game 2 is a sub-par 5-5, 4.92 ERA Micah Owings. He faces Rich Hill, who starts tonight. That game feels even to me even though Hill has the better stats.

Those are my 2 series previews wedged into a paragraph each. They aren't the best series previews in the world, but we don't have an off day so I can't break out the stat sheets and do my detailed previews just yet.

Thanks,

Ryan