1st step in overcoming regular season MLB boredom

Is admitting you have a problem. My name is Whitney, and I am a hypocrite. I say I love everything sports, follow everything sports- and claim to have the same knowledge of everything sports as any average guy. However, when it comes to baseball, I can't bring myself to truly immerse myself and follow Major League Baseball until the playoffs in October. (GASP!)

Part of my 12 step program for reconnecting with baseball is a roundup of the Weekend feature games. That doesn't sound so hard does it?

Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis Cardnials 3 "So your sayin there's a chance..."

OK so the Cubs haven't seen a World Series Championship in well, over a century. One would say this franchise, they're fans, might be slightly..well..pathetic. Fear not Cubbies, I get it. I'm from Philly, home of teams that tease you in the playoffs only to crap the bed. We too are pathetic. While we are pathetic in a raging, bitter, guns and religion kind of way ( just because you thought what Mr. Obama said about us Pennsylvanians was not nice- that doesn't mean it wasn't true.) ya'll are pathetic in a hoplessly optimistic desperate kind of way. Nonetheless, I get it. Ted Lilly recorded his 1,000th strikeout and added his second career extra-base hit. He threw seven solid innings. Cubs have tied the series 1-1. Cardinals are still 1/2 game up the Cubs in the NL Central but Cubs are a better team. Ssshh, don't tell them it's only May.

Seattle 1, New York Yankees 6 "Dad's Mad"

Just Yesterday, Hank Steinbrenner said he was "disappointed with the way the season has gone," in this last season in the historic Yankees Stadium, and first season in 15yrs with a new manager, I'm talking about YOU Joe Girardi. The Yankees (16-16) stepped it up for their sugar daddy with 13 hits and beat Seattle for the second time in a row. Hottie Yankee and former Red Sox Johnny Damon scored 3 times. The Mariners on the other hand are on a 4 game losing streak, and apparently manager John McLaren had a post game rant that could be heard from space.

Arizona Diamondbacks 10, New York Mets 4 " a tangled Webb they weave."

Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Webb is having the hottest start (7-0) in franchise history, and was NL pitcher of the month for April. Webb pitched six innings, gave up a career high 4 runs. Augie Ojeda starting for the Diamondbacks injured 2nd basemen, had a game high 6 RBI's. Among all time Diamondback 2nd basement game high's - he's tied for 2nd. Potential 6th man award, or 10th man- or whatever. And no, that is not the official Arizona Diamondback Yamaka sold exclusively at the team's store. I wouldnt figure Arizona and large Jewish population, but Oy, you learn something new every day!