I think it's more like 5-6+ games under .500 since the recent Cubs streak. if we go by the June 3 date that everyone keeps throwing around, they're actually 2 over 500 I thought it was closer to this. It can hardly be classified as choking to play barely over .500 while watching your lead shrink from 8.5 to 1.5 (or 0.5?? ). Obviously the Brewers haven't been as hot, but the Cubs took it upon themselves to close the gap. At the start of that stretch, the Cubs were also major underachievers in terms of XW-L, so if there's any choke job to talk about, it's the Cubs prior to 3 June.