The quality of umpiring was pretty poor in many ways today. That being said, we can't expect to win games started by Jeff Suppan or Blake Hawksworth. It may have been poor but its not what made you lose today or yesterday. The Cubs have been on the other end of bad calls plenty this year. It sucks, but it happens, and saying you are playing 2 teams is just sour grapes. There were some very questionable calls, that's all. It's also interesting to see the Cardinals lose 3 straight right after they go on an 8 game winning streak, and somehow I'm not surprised. There are questionable calls all the time. Byrd being called out at 1st was a questionable call the Cardinals received. Like I said the Cubs have been on the wrong end of some pretty blatant bad calls this year, it happens. The Cardinals lost because their starting pitching has sucked the last 2 days. Point blank, no if, ands, or buts. about it.