Go Cubs Go

Go Cubs Go has yet to be played in Chicago, but the team pulled off a great victory their division rival Pittsburg Pirates.  

The Cubs are not excited about putting star second basemen Darwin Barney on the DL after he suffered a cut on his left knee.  But the Cubs still edged a 3-1 victory riding on the arm of Jeff Samardzija. And he gave no reason to take him out.  He went eight straight innings and only allowed 2 hits total.

The Pirates failed to even score until Marmol came into the game in the ninth.

Some of the other young talent looked very good though.  Rizzo went deep for the first time this season driving in two of the teams three runs.

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So what should Cubs fans make of this? This is a great start to the season.  I'm sure if you ask any manager they will tell you they would rather start the season out 1-0 rather than 0-1.  The Cubs obviously still have some work to do with figuring out what Marmol's role will be.  Along with how to get rid of an aging left fielder who has too big of a contract coming upon two years. They have looked like a solid team all year, but I still don't think this is their year.

Maybe next year or the following when Biaz is ready to come up and him or Castro can make the move to third will the Cubs be ready.  The young stars are the key to this teams success in the next couple years, so lets hope the Cubs can hang on to them and make something work vey soon.