That may go down as the most befuddling turn of events in my Cubs-fan life. It was like for one year, with one guy, we somehow got a hold of the pixie dust ourselves for once. Most of our lineup was on that dust that year. Cubs OBP went 333, 354, 333 from 07-09. 08 was unlike anything we had experienced before with the whole lineup working counts and taking walks. In the regular season, of course. it sucks the postseason was canceled that year. And coming right off the postseason cancellations of 03 and 04. Glad baseball survived.