A Very Special Cubs Post

The NY Mets announced Sunday that they have agreed to a 7 year $119 million deal with #1 free agent target Carlos Beltran. The Cubs lost out after only offering 5 years at $75 million. At least the Cubs can take heart after all of the rest of their free agent signings of.. um, uh... well, they did resign Moises Alou right? No? Matt Clement? Shoot. Well they did resign Todd Hollandsworth. At least they still have Sammy Sosa to anchor the OF... Hopefully the Cubs sign Maggs and finish two thirds of their all-ass OF. Maybe Juan Gonzalez is around to finish it?

On the homefront, the kitten got back home Saturday afternoon after being fixed. He has been tired and groggy, but genuinely happy to be home. Hopefully Krash will be back to himself and terrorizing everything in sight very soon.

Other than that, the countdown to Soxfest is on. It begins this Friday, and as usual there is a great level of excitement, looking forward to baseball talk in January, and the gathering of good friend to go with it. We'll be staying at the Hyatt as usual.