“This song is an instrumental. Just play it loud.” – The In Crowd by The Ramsey Lewis Trio
Hey, look at that. The Cubs are tied for the second-best record in baseball after Tuesday night’s 4-3 win over the Braves. Chicago now trails the Brewers by five games with 23 to play, and their magic number to make the playoffs is 14. Is Craig Counsell still a bad manager? Counsell’s Cubs are 163-138 (.542) in two seasons, which bests his winning percentage with Milwaukee (.531).
It should be easy to give a guy with 870 career wins the benefit of the doubt, but Counsell’s detractors heavily outnumber those who’d rather not see somebody else on the top step of Chicago’s dugout.