A reader left this comment yesterday:

Hey Pinto, how bout a little love for the Cubs on this board? Fukudome's got a .600 OBP and is slugging .875. Maybe he's for real...

The Cubs aren't exactly off to a great start. The did do a job on Roy Oswalt yesterday (no strikeouts for Roy strikes me as unusual). The rest of the team is hitting just .230, however, and Kosuke drew better than 14 of the team's walks. There's not much to love about the Cubs right now.

As for Oswalt, I found three instances where he went seven innings and struck out one, but no instances of his going deep in a game without striking out any batters. Given that he walked just one batter, it's tough to imagine the umpire was squeezing him. Roy wasn't perfectly healthy:

"I felt OK early," Oswalt said. "Just got to the fifth inning and felt my biceps kind of pinch me after that. I don't know if it's just a nerve, but I didn't make it through the seventh."

The Astros don't have much of a rotation behind Roy. If he's seriously hurt, they're in real trouble.