Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor.
It’s a six-game season. The Cubs reasonably need to go 4-2 to ease on into the postseason — not an easy task as their opponents are both division-winners, but any team can beat any other team any given day, and if they can’t, they didn’t belong in the tournament.