Don’t care who they play, just that they play in the post season.

Al, I made that same point a few nights ago; that the wildcard team has won the WS three of the last six years, and was roundly criticized for mentioning it; the dissenters’ opinions were that “them that means the wildcard team didn’t win it the other three years”.

My point was that the division title means nothing; that the Cubs (at that point) were nine or ten games in front for the wildcard spot and therefore had a great chance of making the playoffs. Division title are great, sure, but that’s not what a team strives for when then they take the field for Game One in March or April.

Start a new winning streak tonight in Wrigley (Mid)west!

don’t care how. just win.

letting 3 runs score in the 9th, where did they get that idea?
Alright, let’s have a great game tonight, and get that “W” flying again. Oh, how I have missed her.

But there’s no denying that losing the division and being the wild card team would be a let down. I don’t want to back up into the playoffs after such a good season. If this team chokes in the final stretch it probably won’t get far in the postseason.

the Cubs to play well in St. Louis. Our rotation is coming back into focus. The defense needs to shore itself up, while a few timely hits will get us back on track.

…so that they had a bucket load of confidence going to Milwaukee.

OK, that’s not what happened, but in a season of “cosmic karma”, it sure seems like that was the result.

The Reds score 4 in the 9th Saturday, 3 in the 9th Sunday and 3 in the 9th last night. I’m just glad the Cubs are done playing the Reds for the year. Let other teams deal with them for the rest of the month.

Let’s play two!

end without warning. I remember that funk they were in around the All Star break. Things looked really bleak; the brewers had tied the Cubs for first and we were heading to Milwaukee for a four series that look disastrous. The Cubs seemed to turn it around on that Sunday game against the fish. After that they went on a massive hot streak that didn’t end until the middle of the phillies series. I suspect that they will do the same very soon, hopefully not cooling off and having a hot September and October.

i would really like to see this kid one more time before we ship him off..

…but when was the last time the Cubs made the playoffs two years in a row?

Would be an amazing accomplishment….this would be the first consecutive post seasons since 07 and 08 if Im not mistaken, correct?

Man that would be great if the Brewers fell flat andmissed the playoffs totally….Cubs v Brewers is really becoming one of the best rivalries in the game…so my disdain for milwaukee is growing year by year (the team that is, never been to the city)

After struggling to gather myself after watching the 9th inning implosion I handed the remote to my wife (so I wouldn’t throw the damn thing). She began watching come creepy show about pageant girls. Anyway, one girl spoke about how her mother would get so nervous watching her compete in pageants. The girl said, “I don’t know what the big deal is, it is going to happen the way it happens.” I never thought I would gain comfort through beauty pageants, but there you go. That being said, I’m truthfully trying to avoid watching the St. Louis series. The Cards series are always hard for me and I don’t want to hear Al Haborsky talking about gaining momentum on the Cubs and all that crap. So we’ll see how I do. After all it will happen how it happens.

Who do we root for this weekend?

I’d say go Phillies.

But as long the Cubs win this weekend we move closer to a playoff spot one way the other. A philles lose moves us closer to at least a Wild Card and a brewers loses moves us closer to the division. Maybe with some luck all four games will extra innings and put both teams into a nosedive.

The magic number should be twelve.

Teams simply cannot stay hot for 162 games…..having this slump now then breaking out of it will both energize and build confidence going into the playoffs. While I’m frustrated with the team and having a hard time watching lately, I’m not on the ledge. Weren’t we playing pretty GOOD ball when we went into AZ last year?

…who you would want to play is a bad thing?!?

to a lot of people, like myself, it’s fun to talk about who you would want to see in the playoffs…..it’s like discussing during the offseason which free agents the cubs should go after