The Friendly Confines have never seemed friendlier, and that’s a big reason why the Cubs are the best team in baseball entering June for the first time in 100 years.

Alfonso Soriano homered, Jim Edmonds drove in two runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the reeling Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Sunday to complete a perfect seven-game homestand.

The Cubs entered June with the best record in baseball for the first time since 1908, when they last won a World Series. They started the new month by finishing a four-game sweep of the defending National League champions and sending them to their seventh straight loss.

Chicago is 26-8 at Wrigley Field after wrapping up its first perfect homestand of at least seven games since April 14-26, 1970. Now, they’ll try to establish some momentum away from home.

The road has been far less friendly, and one concern is that they’ve played 11 more games at home than they have on the road.

Anyone that calls themself a sports fan has been there at one time or another. You are spending your day cheering on your favorite team, but your cheers seem to be falling on deaf-ears. Your team seems to have decided that today is a good day to just phone-it-in.
Sadly, as Cubs fans we have come to find this feeling sadly familiar.  As you sit in your Wrigley field seat, the magical feeling you get every time you walk into the storied ballpark has faded as frustration has built over the last few hours. With every run the opposing team tacks-on a mixture of fury and indifference builds within you.
Finally, as even the manager has seemingly thrown in towel, subbing half of his starting line-up for whatever bench-warmers and farmhands he has on the bench, the frustration culminates and the thought sneaks into your mind: “This is a waste of time, WHAT AM I DOING HERE? If they have given up, maybe I should just leave!”
As quickly as the thought flashes across your brain, a wave of guilt flows through your Cubbie-blue bleeding heart. With this wave, all the times in your life that you have exclaimed, “a real fan never leaves early” suddenly weighs on your conscious. As you ponder your predicament, the clinching thought strikes, ensuring you will stay to the bitter end: “What if today is the day that they make one of the greatest rallies in history? Can I handle missing that?”
The answer is no-doubt a resounding NO! Now all you can think of is yourself sitting on the Dan-Ryan, torturing yourself by insisting on listening to the end of the game and hearing the Cubs storm back, making history in the process with a historic come-from-behind victory.  Ron Santo’s signature shrieks of child-like excitement on the airwaves would be sure to haunt you the rest of your days.
Every team has that once-in a-lifetime game that we have either seen or heard about. It is the fear of being one of the foolish that left that keeps us in your seats. As Cubs fans we hearken back to 1989 when the Cubs stormed back from a 9-0 deficit to overcome the Astros in extras.