Looks like Brodeur's voodoo doll finally started working.

Also, the Cubs won the division last year. I'm not sure that being in first place by a game in April constitutes "enjoying their place in the sun for once."

Deadspin's rampant Cubs bias strikes again!

I always hated his WWL columns, but he doesn't like Scoop Jackson, the worst writer in history. Therefore: approve.

Eh, I like him fine, aside from the blogger comments. He's a Cubs fan, after all.

@Trenton Makes The World Takes: That blows.

@crazyjoedavola: I love it. The Cubs are mentioned like once every six Closers, and then Will makes a couple posts which are intended as sidelong insults. You know he's a Cardinals fan, right? Hates the Cubs? The anti-Cubs backlash is really getting tiresome.

Good time for the Cubs to arrive in town, methinks.

@Sheepblog: And yet, the Cubs haters have been far louder than the Cubs fans, including in this very thread. But enjoy your freakout.

At this point, I think I'd be more than happy if the Cubs kept on getting left out of the Closer.

Well, if they keep leading the NL in OBP, I like the odds. But maybe let's not jump to conclusions after 19 games.

Yeah, I can't believe the people who would buy a shirt like this. Do they really think they're supporting Fukudome? Baffling.

Leitch has rules against mentioning the Cubs in this thing unless they lose, right?

I suspect that in Will's fantasies, he lives in an apartment with Isiah and Rick Ankiel, Three's Company style.

Here's the thing, though: I promise you that we legitimate Cubs fans hate the drunk louts in the bleachers who throw stuff onto the field far more than fans of any other team do. Mostly because those are the "fans" that have all the visibility, which makes the rest of us look bad.

So, the Cardinals are 10-4. Eight of those wins are over Washington (worst team in baseball right now), Houston (bad), San Francisco (terrible), and Colorado (strug-a-LING). Are we really supposed to be impressed by this? Talk to me in late May.

Kid, Jose Lima, yes.

More shitty pitching in the division? Thanks, baseball!

Dusty Baker's first 2008 Wrigley Field win was windy and boo-infested, just the way he likes them. Chicago won 9-5 in his second game back versus his old team (anyone remember the Cubs' last-place finish in 2006?), although he was booed each time he left the dugout. Derrek Lee had his fifth homer of the season for…

I haven't watched Joe broadcast recently, so I don't really want to comment on this.