Garner says (grabbing his package) “I got yer double-digit win-streak right here!” Yep, the streak that people kept telling me could happen (but hadn’t since moving out of the ‘Dome – and that was a while ago now, folks)…happened. And the other thing that people kept telling me would happen when the win streak happened, getting back into play-off contention, happened too. Shows what I know.

So what now? Well the Astros have (following Monday’s slaughter of the Reds) 25 games left and a 1-game deficit to make up over the Cubs. The Giants are also in the way, but unlike the Cubs, the Astros have 3 left with them in SF which will decide that little battle one way or the other. The Astros have to keep winning at a ridiculous clip as the Cubs have a schedule softer than my dog’s poo after he’s been in the garbage, and they have three more games to play whilst being 3 games better off in the loss column.

Mushrooms

My sympathies to the residents of Florida, but the Astros have a wild card to win and you poor folks are just in the way. The BBGs appear to have enlisted the help of Mother Nature to mess with the Cubs. The rain-out of the weekend series in Florida means that (a) they still have one tough opponent on their schedule; and (b) they will have to gorvel their pitchers to make up those games. One game may be made up in Chicago this weekend (which ain’t so good for us), but there’s also a double-header likely on 9/20 that will mess with their rotation and have them traveling through the night on consecutive days.

Oh, and Hurricane Ivan is a possibility to arrive in Miami at the same time as the Cubs. Sometimes, the BBGs just don’t know when to quit. Read the rest of this entry »