The Pirate are 10-3 in June. The Cubs are 8-5. What are you babbling about. Well, the Pirates have won 18 of 23 This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen posted here. How so? I'd call that a "tear." While the Cubs have been playing good baseball, they haven't been clipping at that ridiculous pace. The guy was talking like the the Pirates are just going nuts right now, when the reality is that in the current month up to today the two teams aren't playing that far off at all. What I'm saying is that my arbitrary sample size was way less strange than yours.