The first weekend in October is Columbus Day weekend and 4 days long for me. If the NLDS happens to go to a fifth game and it's played in SD on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday that weekend, I'm probably going to be heading down. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps_07.jsp Both NLDS Game 5's in the first round are on Tuesday, October 9. Games 1 and 2 for both NLDS series are on Wednesday, October 3 and Thursday, October 4. Those would be the road games for the Cubs in the first round. Yea, I saw that and was not amused. I wonder if there's any way the Cubs can play the Padres AND have home field advantage... Ah, forget it. I'm fresh out of excuses to avoid helping my mom move that weekend. You would have to come watch the games with me? (Assuming the Cubs make the playoffs, that is.) I'm not sure if that would be a good enough excuse though.