Cubs CD, Expert Picks, and the Playoff Roster

This will be the last 'build-up' post about the Cubbies. After this it's all meat and potatoes, fellas. Three quick final notes, well kinda quick. First, this morning I chose my Cubs playoff cd. Last season, during the extremely brief Cubs 2007 run, I decided I would start selecting a cd whenever one of my teams started a playoff run. For the 2007 Cubs, it was Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here". For the Giants Super Bowl 42 run it was U2's The Joshua Tree. For the 2008 Chicago Cubs, it's going to be Peter, Bjorn, and John's "Writer's Block." For some reason it jumped out at me, and that's really how I go about picking this thing. It's a cool way to tie a team to a certain musical memory, give the run a little more of an identity. Now whenever I hear songs off of those first two albums, I instantly jump back in memory to those two events. It's a cool idea, and I suggest it to anybody who's into music and sports.

The experts over on ESPN released their playoff predictions today. Nothing toooooo stunning, a few people picked the Dodgers to win it, and someone picked the Rays. For the most part everyone picked some sort of combination between Red Sox/Angels and Cubs for the World Series. Peter Gammonds, who is usually a Cubs supporter picked the Dodgers to win that series, as did Jim Caple. Consider yourselves to be on my crap list guys. The Cubs got the most picks for the win though. Here's a link to the espn picks, as usual copy and paste it into your browser,
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/news/story?id=3619261

If you look on the left hand side, under the ESPN headlines and the Baseball headlines, you can see a link to a Jayson Stark article where he picks the Chicago Cubs to win the Series. Check it out, pretty good stuff, even kind of funny.

The Cubs' playoff roster also came out this morning. I'm not completely sure with all of Lou's choices on the roster, but as usual, In Lou We Trust. Seriously though, I don't know about his choice to bring Bobby Howry, Sean Marshall, and Jason Marquis. I would've liked to have left one of them (Bobby Howry) at home in favor of another bat. Lou also picked Felix Pie over Micah Hoffpauir, I'm fine with that, but again we could've brought Hoffpauir instead of one of the pitchers that we probably won't be using. DeRosa and Soto are apparently 100% and ready to go, as is Z, who is refusing to talk to reporters right now. I love it. I'll see you guys later tonight, probably around 1030.