That’s about the size of it.
What the heck do you want from the Cubs?? They are 7 - 3 in their last ten games! That’s not exactly punting things away!! They took 4 out of 5 from the Cardinals last week, and 2 out of three from Houston! What more do you want??? 
You can’t win EVERY game in a pennant race, you know…
Can you?
Well, the Cubs can’t . . .
eta: some movie from the late 80s early 90s (I think it was **Taking Care of Business ** with Charles Grodin and Jim Belushi) started out with a voice over or title card that included the phrase:
“…and the Cubs are in the World Series. . . so you know this is a fairy tale”
or words to that effect
It has been an amazing September for the Tribe. These last 3 games with the Tigers (you know, the series we swept…) were playoff-caliber. Plus, we won the first two in spectacular fashion.
I hope we can carry this momentum through to the playoffs. We need our boys to NOT be afraid of any Stankies.
I, too, am rooting for the Brewers to face us in the Series. It would be bittersweet.
Grr.
Snarl.
Hiss.
Hey, if we can’t be there, we want it to stay in the division. You have our full blessing to kick ass if we don’t make it.
I know I know, but they are losing the easy games and winning the hard ones, in my opinion.
It’s just the stress getting to me. That’s all.
<laughing> What stress? We KNOW they will blow it, it’s just a matter of when and where!!! Hell, I almost CALLED the Bartman fiasco, because in the 8th inning of that game I knew something had to happen. 
This is why I would like to see the addition of a second wild card in both leagues. The two wild cards would play each other in a one game playoff. So, there would be a big advantage to winning the division (avoiding this one game playoff which you could easily lose) and even the winner of the one game playoff would be at a disadvantage in the next series because their rotation would be out of whack from that one game.
It would pay to win the division.
Plus, one game playoffs are exciting.
Just got back from this evening’s 3-2 Cubs win. A fun game to watch, Lilly was dominant if not the winner, but again the Cubs offense makes some no-name rookie look like Cy Young; it takes a fielder’s choice in the 8th for the Cubs to scratch out the GW run, though Howry shutting down the side in the 9th (where the f**k was Dempster? Oh, sorry, don’t answer that) made up for it.
Then it’s off to the Redman bar to see the Brewers choke it away in the 10th. Cubs own a 1-game lead, thought the Brewers have 2 games “in hand”. It’s interesting, Wrigleyville is going nuts, and I’m just glad to be along for the ride…
This is the year the Cubs will do it. All the way. This year.
C K, all the way where? All the way to Shea? They’ve been there before.
Personally, as a Yankee fan, nothing would please me more than to see Boston lose the AL East, and the Mets lose the NL East. Yes, I’m one of those old school fans who roots for only one local team and always wants to see the other do worse. That said, I have Yankee tickets throughout the playoffs and World Series, and watching the Mets collapse in Yankee Stadium in October would be this year’s baseball highlight.
Bolding mine.
Dude, you spelled “watching Roger Clemens get booed off the mound at Yankee Stadium after giving up seven runs in three and a third to the Mets in Game Seven” kind of funny.
Dude… You spelled “Angels in Game 3 of the ALDS” kind of funny.
o/’ Beat the Mets! Beat the Mets! Anybody can beat the Mets! Little Leagues and old men too, I can beat them, how bout you? o/’
That said, I do hope the Cubs go all the way this year. I always do.
Yankees vs. Cubs should be good for the ratings. 50 million fans rooting for the Cubs or at least against the Yanks and about 8 million rooting for the Yanks. It would be fun.
Here’s the Scenario, the series goes back and forth to a deciding 7th game. In the 9th inning with the Cubs leading 5-2 in Yankee Stadium, A-Rod of all players hits the walk-off Grand Slam to win the series after Soriano made an error to extend the inning.
However I don’t expect the Cubs to get out of the first round and I think the Yankees chances of going to the World Series is no better than any of the AL teams. I am leaning toward Padres vs Yankees being the likeliest, but that is only because I am a Yankee fan.
Jim
ENOUGH OF THE METS BASHING ALREADY!!!
Okay - we kinda fell apart last week, but we won last night, we’re still 2 and a half up, and our magic number is down to 9 (of course, there are only 9 games left to the season, huh…:smack: )
Let’s just fast forward to the playoffs, shall we?
anyrose, the magic number is a combination of Mets wins and Phillies losses. So if the Mets win their next 5 and the Phillies lose their next 4, that’s your 9.
While the total collapse of the Mariners has been somewhat painful though entirely predictable*, I have to agree that, overall, this has been one of the most entertaining season finishes in years.
*Some wag said a few days ago that the Mariners have always been a .500 team, they’re just taking an awkward route to get there. I can’t really disagree; At the end of the first month, I thought I saw a third-place finish in their future. In this situation, it’s small comfort to be proven more or less right at the end of the day.
You know, a few weeks back I gave up on The Team Of My Youth, the Phillies, when they committed that hideous choke job in Atlanta, the game where they were up 8-1 in the eighth and wound up losing. And yet, now they’re just 1.5 GB. And I feel strangely certain that they’re going to catch and pass the Mets and win the division. Baseball is a strange game.
As for The Team That Plays About 10 Miles From Where My Mom Lives–sometimes rooting interests can be tenuous, at best–the Padres are set up to shoot past the Diamondbacks and take the NL West. That was my call about mid-season, and it’s nice to think I’ll be right about something.
Oh yeah, I also figured the Yankees would overtake Boston, though I figured they’d have done it by now. The triumph may be short-lived, though; either way they’ll probably wind up facing the Angels eventually, and the Angels simply torture NY.
Not that I don’t respect Cleveland. They’ve done a fine job and all that. I just don’t see them advancing very far. A nice story in winning the division title; they’ll probably have to be happy with that.
I don’t know what to make of the NL Central, except that the Brewers do not exactly exude confidence at this point. That, and the fact that the turn in the Ankiel story really shit on the Cardinals just when it seemed like they would be in it to the end. And now we’ve got folks talking about LaRussa bailing out and coaching Seattle or retiring or whatnot. Unbelievable.
As the OP says, we’re living in “interesting” times.
I… just can’t talk about this anymore.
A pox on the house of Jorge Sosa.