If we didn’t have by far the hardest remaining schedule of the WC contenders and if we didn’t lose every single potential tiebreaker I might be able to talk myself into having hope. I mean sure anything can happen in baseball and I’m not saying it’s improbable that the Cubs play 1 game better than 2 other teams over a 9 game span but it feels less and less likely that the team is suddenly going to turn it on overnight.