From Wrigley

Its been two games since we’ve done a recap or a preview over here at From Wrigley and I apologize, its been a hectic week, and no one else has had time to write anything for the site either. Hopefully that will change in the next couple of weeks. Anyway, I’ll get to today’s preview in another post, what I’d like to do now is what I suppose we’ll call the week in review. Pretty self explanatory, right? Then lets get to it.

• Soriano’s to the 15 day DL after straining his calf after one of his “hops.” Says Soriano, “It was the step after the hop.” Says Me, “Bullshit.”
• With Soriano’s stint on the DL Eric Patterson rejoins the club, promptly flies out to Cubs perennial prospect an ultimate team disappointment, his brother Corey.
• Marquis didn’t suck in the series finale in Phillie. In other news, Hell hath frozen over.
• Dempster continues to perform well, if giving up 4 in 6 innings is good that is. Still better than expected remains the norm for our good friend Dumpster Dempster.
• Zambrano is back into form. Apparently the bananas didn’t, in fact, plug him up, Ronnie.
• Good news, Lilly at least got through 6 innings in his Thursday start against the Reds. Bad news, he gave up 5 runs in doing so, a total that the Cubs didn’t get to.
• Derrek Lee is a monster at the plate. Like Hell he was totally healthy last season. He’s already eclipsed his home run total for the first half of last season and we are 3 weeks into the ‘08 campaign.
• Its official, Zambrano will be playing the part of Gargomel and Mike Fontenot will be playing Surfer-Smurf in the all new live action “Smurfs In Chicago” film set to debut next fall. Say the casting directors, “We loved watching Big Z pretend to hammer Fontenot into the ground in pre-game the other day, we are looking for that kind of chemistry on set.”

Finally, the Cubs going into today are 3-3 in the last seven days (these ‘week in reviews’ will run Friday to Friday), dropping two in Phillie and one at home against the Reds.