The Chicago Cubs would like to thank you for keeping the seat warm up to this point, but would like to take it from here.
Signed,
2nd place.
Signed,
2nd place.
Hi, St. Louis, Glad to have you.
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The Cubs actually have a major advantage for the second half, as they have played 5 less games than the Cardinals and have a -3 advantage in the loss column as it is.
I would rather make it to the playoffs and be swept than not make it to the playoffs at all.
...Oh, that's right... The LA Dodgers are going to be swept in 4 games in St. Louis :biglaugh:
The cubs have played a favorable stretch of games while the cards have played some tougher teams and have a series with dodgers coming up. The end of the season is still two months away, plenty of baseball left and this race is going to be fought tooth and nail.
There is little I enjoy more than a tight division race involving the Cubs & Cardinals. I don't think the Cardinals are going away and agree it'll go right down to the wire. I might have to activate XM radio so as to catch games during windshield time...
I agree nothing would be more entertaining than see that last series between the two with the division on the line. I, being in africa however, wont see it :sad:.
so im hoping the cards just get hot and destroy everybody. not as much anxiety.
When Ramirez got hurt, the priority for the team immediately became treading water until he came back, as losing him was just as bad to the Cubs as losing Pujols would be for the Cardinals - as talented as the rest of the lineup was, suddenly there was a huge hole in it. Subbing in Andre Blanco's bat for Ramirez's bat didn't instill fear in anyone.
Treading water is exactly what the Cubs did, never getting more than 3 over or 2 under. The Cardinals, who started 17-7, have gone 36-42 since then and lost 6 of 10 coming out of the break. Not exactly the 1927 Yankees.
With Ramirez starting to get hot (7 hits, 2 homers over the weekend) and Soriano starting to go on one of his streaks, the Cubs look to finally be getting their **** together, while the Cardinals - who had every opportunity to take a sizeable lead in the division - somehow managed not to.
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The problem is mlb only gave the cubs/cards 3 games after the AS break. And only 7 with milwaukee. All 10 games are in a 1.5 week period in the middle of september. Terrible scheduling on mlb's part. The three teams that have consistently been battling for the central play all their games against each other in the first half :no:
