I’m having flashbacks to my youth and I’m breaking out in sweats. It isn’t that I’m afraid of the impending school year, but rather the end of the regular MLB season. At least in my youth, the All-Star game felt like it was the halfway point between the 162-game season.

Winners of two straight games coming out of the break, the Cubs host the even hotter Boston Red Sox in a three-game series at Wrigley. Hard to believe there are only 66 regular season games remaining. Time won’t move as quickly as it will seem to move for students dreading the return to school, but it will be quick just the same.

A few weeks ago, Jed Hoyer promised Cub fans and the local media that the Cubs would be active in the pitching market. And other than the acquisition of a bit player, whose name I’ve already forgotten (because he was supposedly sent to the Arizona complex team), Hoyer has done nada, zip, zilch. Luckily, they continue to hit the heck out of the ball.

Some folks here are counting down the days until the Bears play their first regular season game while I dread the end of the baseball season. Go figure.