This is when following baseball is the most difficult; when your team is merely inches away from a division lead or the wild card spot and you have to scan the day-by-day box scores to see if they can make up that one or two inches of ground by late September. In this case, the Cubs had a chance to take the NL Central lead heading into last night's matchup against the Phillies. They lost 4-1, but are now only a full game behind the Brewers and 1 1/2 behind the Wild Card spot. It looks more and more like the way to get into October will be going through a NL Central pennant. Regardless, the Cubs must take advantage of these next three games against the Phillies, as they host the Mets over the weekend, and suddenly, that one game back turns into four or five and we make a panic trade for shitty relief pitching (instead of making a smart trade for, you know, good relief pitching). And we don't want that to happen!In other news, Brady Quinn is doing exactly what Matt Leinart did a year ago, and he's getting just as much bad press for it, too. Maybe he deserves it, b
ut still...this is what the NFL gets for not knowing how to manage the first round of the NFL draft. I predict Quinn's agent Tom Condon cuts a deal similar to what Leinart had, 5-6 years at $40-50 million with about $15 million guaranteed. That's the going rate these days for franchise QBs.(And Browns fans, Charlie Frye is NOT your franchise QB. Talk yourselves out of that immediatley.)
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