Oh yeah...

Even though they are now ahead of the Cardinals in the standings...

The Cubs still suck.

On This Date in Baseball: May 5

1935 - At Braves Field, young pitcher Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals faced the Boston Braves and 40-year-old veteran Babe Ruth. Dean walked Ruth his first two times up, then with two strikes on the Bambino, Dean waved his outfielders back and threw a fastball down the middle that Ruth missed for a strikeout. Dean won the game, 7 - 0, and in his first at bat, hit a home run over Ruth's head in right field. Dean will face Ruth again on May 19th, holding him hitless again, and winning that game as well.

1999 - At Wrigley Field, the Colorado Rockies became the first team in 35 years and only the third in the 20th century to score in every inning in a 13 - 6 win over the Chicago Cubs. The last time a team scored in all nine innings was also at Chicago, when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cubs on September 13, 1964. Hmmmm...imagine that. Yet more proof that...

2001 - Sammy Sosa homered and had four RBI, and Julian Tavarez pitched seven solid innings as the Chicago Cubs beat the Dodgers 20 - 1 at Wrigley Field. Chicago scored eight runs in each of the last two innings.

While the Cubs looked good for a night, they still finished behind the Cardinals in the Central Division in 2001 because Jesus hates them.

On This Date in Baseball: April 30

1949 - At Wrigley Field, Rocky Nelson of the St. Louis Cardinals hit an inside-the-glove two-run home run to turn a ninth inning 3 - 2 Chicago Cubs lead into a 4 - 3 Cardinals victory. Cubs center fielder Andy Pafko caught a blooper that was strewn with paper cups, and umpire Al Barlick called Nelson safe on a supposedly "trapped" catch. Pafko started arguing with Barlick, and forgot to call time. Nelson circled the bases, for perhaps the only "inside the glove" home run history.

Oh Cubbies...will you ever not suck?

On This Date in Baseball: April 16

1929 - The New York Yankees are the first team in major league baseball to permanently feature numbers on the backs of their uniforms. The numbers correspond to each player's position in the batting order. The numbers also allow fans and broadcasters to more easily identify the players.

1940 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians hurls the first and only Opening Day no-hitter in major league history. Bob Feller, unlike the Cubs, does not, nor did he ever, suck.

1948 - The super station WGN-TV televises a MLB game for the first time. With Jack Brickhouse doing the play-by-play, the White Sox beat the Cubs, 4-1, in the first game of the Windy City Classic played at Wrigley Field. History tells us that the Cubs sucked in 1948 and again in 1958, 1968, 1978, 1988 and...well, you get the picture.

1978 - Bob Forsch of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies, 5 - 0. Less than a year later, his brother Ken, of the Houston Astros, pitched a no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves, making the siblings the only brothers to throw no-hitters in major league baseball.

1997 - The Chicago Cubs set the mark for worst start in National League history, making three more errors as they extended their losing streak to 12 with a 4 - 0 loss to the Colorado Rockies. Chicago broke the modern NL record of 0-10 set by the 1988 Braves and the overall NL record of 0-11 by the 1884 Detroit Wolverines.

Moral of the story: The Cubs still suck.

On This Date in Baseball: March 9

1995 - MLB owners unanimously approve two expansion teams: the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Each of the new clubs will pay a $130 million franchise fee and will begin play in 1998. And for the Cubs fans out there, these two teams have played in the World Series more since their inception than the Cubs have in the last 65 years. They have also won more Fall Classics than the Cubs in 100 years. Tee hee hee.