On Behalf of the Cubs

Frankly, I'm a little tired of the media bashing the Cubs. I mean, it's a subtle bashing, but it's a bashing nonetheless. The Cubs are 31-21, the best record in the National League by half a game, and 1/2 a game from the best record in the majors. However, whenever you see a power poll, it is likely to mention that 12 of the Cubs games have come against the Pirates, as though the Pirates were a team that EVERYONE beats on. The Cubs went 9-3 in those games. The Pirates are presently 24-27 (a half a game worse than the Yankees, for the record). If you take away those 12 games from the Pirates' record, they are actually 21-18, which is a winning record. It seems hard to bash the Cubs for winning 75% of their games against a team that would have a winning record if they didn't have to play the Cubs.

The Cubs don't get the respect they deserve. Maybe one day soon, they'll shed their "lovable loser" image for a World Series title.

Coming Attractions

The semester is over... but the summer studying for comps has begun.

This summer I have roughly 4300 pages of primary source reading to do, covering philosophical history from Descartes to Plantinga (and other living philosophers). While I'm reading up for comps, I hope to have time to write a few posts that I've been inspired to write. Some potential ideas are:

• A review of Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright.
• "The Constipation of Philosophy" - a realization of the misuse of philosophy to serve our own ends rather than to pursue truth
• Thoughts on the movie adaptation of Prince Caspian
• A review of Mario Kart Wii
• Thoughts about using Facebook as a professor/instructor

There are other ideas, but those are a few of the "highlights" if you can call them that.

However, for the time being, it's back to Spinoza.