I’m trying to say positive about this season and I definitely won’t blame any curse or voodoo BUT, this team is in trouble. They have lost eight of their last nine and I don’t see a glimmer of the team that started the second half on fire.

The pitching has been steady but with the little run support they have gotten every mistake is being amplified. This game should have been won which makes two games in a row that the Cubs have straight out blown. This is not what a team should be doing in a pennant race!

Sunday you could blame Wood or Cedeno, I don’t care. Bottom line; a game that should have been won was a lost. Today the bags were left loaded in one inning and in another Soto bunted into a double play. Also, in the fourth Soto was on second with two outs. Dempster gets a base hit to left and…Soto is held at third! Ankiel doesn’t pick the ball up cleanly. In fact he runs past the ball and has to back track to get it. It doesn’t matter because Soto is walking back to third with his head down and never sees it. To quote Santo, “…you gotta stay in the game!”

Look, Lou can talk all his, “…we new it wasn’t going to be easy” crap but the bottom line is somebody has to kick these guys in their butts. Their heads are not in the game and they are without a doubt underachieving. I know the Cub players are not happy with losing, but neither are the Pirates. The difference is the Pirates don’t have the talent to be a championship team, the Cubs do.

I’m trying to type slowly to see if I can get an outcome to the Brewers game but the Reds can’t get any timely hitting. The game is in the bottom of the ninth and the it’s tied up 4-4. The last two innings the Reds have had men on base and did nothing. This is what is pissing me off, I’m waiting to see if the fifth place Reds can beat the Brewers so the Cubs don’t lose ground. If the Cubs were talking care of business I wouldn’t be loosing my hair over a Brewers Reds game!

The Cubs magic number is 15 which means if we don’t win again the Brewers have to loose 15 of 18, the Cards have to loose 11 of 18 and the Astros have to loose 10 of 17 for the Cubs to take the division. I’m not laughing either.