It appears that was probably the main reason. Screwing Russell over is a nice side effect, though. I'm sure Edith Cox is out somewhere bemoaning that that's thousands of dollars that could've gone to his children and saying the Cubs are in the wrong for this.
Wait, you’d rather better your chances of playing a 50-50 game at home than better your chances of avoiding it altogether? It's just meatbally 'don't want to feel like we missed a chance to pick up a game' crap, I'm sure.
I put an end to watching non-Cubs STL games a long, long time ago. Just seeing the dumb horsefeathers that goes their way is far less irritating than actually watching it unfold.
Cam didn't practice today and is day-to-day, apparently he aggravated his foot Thursday. Maybe there will soon be a new entrant in the Tua Tagavailoa derby.
Ozuna donged off Strasburg in the 1st, 2-0 STL. Hope this isn't gonna be one of those things where they lost more than they should have vs Milwaukee so now they're gonna blowtorch everyone for a week.