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While it's true that the Brewers are 8 games over .500, the Cubs are only 4 games back in the loss column, after today, and they will have played 2 fewer games. If the Cubs take care of their own business they should be fine. The Cubs and Brewers have comparable schedules over the next month: Both will play PIT and WSH over the course of the next 7 days and PHI and NYM the following week. After interleague play, both teams will play SD, LAD, FLA, and ATL before playing one another June 4-6. Obviously, the Cubs need to win those series/and or sweep to keep pace (or perhaps gain ground on the Brewers if they have a hiccup). It could very well mean that the Cubs are in position to lead the division by the end of May/start of June (of course, they could also be farther behind but I happen to think that they were underachieving in April and are now ready to win more consistently).

He was referring to you hoping they don't keep up this pace; 106 wins...

Sheets is still struggling with his mechanics right now. He has been leaving his curveball up in the zone and has not had his usual pinpoint control. He said he figured it out midway through the start against St. Louis and finally felt like the old Sheets. Whatever that means. Expect his K rate to go up when the weather starts becoming warmer and more humid. Sheets loves throwing his curveball in high humidity. Hopefully he figured it out a little bit in his last start, but he has not been super sharp as of yet. As far as using the Cardinals series as a gauge of the Brewers, that was not my point. I was just saying how a few games that are blowouts really effects the overall run differential of a team. The Brewers hadn't really blown anybody out before the Cards series, but had been blown out 3 times. It just evened things out to where the numbers should be. The Brewers are a good team and a totally different team from past years. People need to realize it is more than just luck that they are winning games. Once St. Louis can put the whole Hancock thing behind them a little bit, you will realize that they are not that good of a team. It's convenient to use a teammates death for poor play, but it would inspire me personally to try to win even harder in his honor. You can play that card only so long. It's tragic yes, but don't use it as an excuse to say that the Brewers aren't a good team for sweeping the Cards just because they were in mourning. The Cubs had beaten them twice before the death of Hancock. The Cards are simply not playing good baseball right now. I would say that the Cubs are the most serious threat to the Brewers this year, especially if Lilly and Marquis continue to pitch as well as they have and Soriano starts to play like he is capable. It should be an interesting finish. The Astros and Cardinals lineups don't scare me and the Pirates are where the Brewers were a year or two ago. I hope teams keep thinking that "well it's the Brewers so they can't possibly be a good team and keep this up" because they will simply be overlooking a very capable team with no glaring weaknesses. No glaring weaknesses?

I love DLee third because he's the best hitter. Plus, moving him below Aramis lowers his number of potential plate appearances. He's getting on base at an astounding rate; let Aramis, and others, drive him in if he isn't hitting home runs.

Can't you give them some credit for winning the series? Seriously, if they had lost 2 of 3 there would have been a lot of hand wringing about not getting the job done...

:lol: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270501123 That's hilarious :lol:

The Nationals have two good pitchers going in this upcoming series. Hopefully, the Cubs can treat them like they did Snell today!

Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Gotta love 2 wins in one day. \:D/

LaRoche out to deep CF My goodness

Eyre coming in against LaRoche

Bay out 3-1

Sanchez pops out to shallow RF

One guy dressed as Winnie the Pooh and the other a pirate. :lol:

Wuertz blew the first game so I like that Lou is allowing him to get outs in the park...

Jones out to 1B

Barrett walks 6 today wow

Marte might be injured

Pie K's swinging He's gonna be back at AAA if he doesn't stop that

Damaso Marte pitching Rammy out 1-3 right at Marte's head

:lol: if they keep winning by two or more I'm okay with that.

pitching change

DLee RBI single 7-1 YES

Did someone in the crowd just say "Johah, you're doing a whale of a job?" :lol: Demp sits, Wuertz up

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