Things That Told Us what we wanted to hear!	Signs and Portents of the 2008 Cub Hurricane!	Things That Affirmed what we already knew!
Portent #10 if your team capitalizes on a lucky break. . . it's a good sign!	HURRICANE IKE Moves Cub game from Houston to Milwaukee That's MLB logic for you! The Astros play as home     team even though game is in Chicago's backyard! . . .Carlos Zambrano makes most of opportunity! . . . Pitches NO-HITTER against home-team Astros! . . . Attendance: 23,441, mainly from Chicagoland! . . . How many fans--if any-- were from Houston? Carlos faces just 28 batters!	MORE PORTENTS 1 Cubs Still For Sale          2 Playing Field Re-make    3 Free Agent Fukudome    4 Ernie Banks Statue         5 Sports Illustrated Cover 6 Timely Acquisitions        7 Dempster and Wood      8 Sweeping Up the Sox     9 Nine Straight Series        10 Zambrano No-hitter
DID YOU KNOW . . .	That Zambrano had been sidelined by a sore rotator cuff and had not faced an enemy batter in twelve days?         That the Houston Astros (like other teams who play in domes) do not issue rainchecks? They give no     refunds or exchanges for individual game tickets. How's that grab ya?
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