Baseball season just started, but baseball season’s almost over. Thanks to a pandemic and a league office that planned for a 60 games in 66 day season about as successfully as this gender reveal…
…we’re limping to the end of a season that saw the Cubs storm out a 13-3 record that all but guaranteed them one of eight playoff spots, and they’ve spent the last month trying very hard to blow it. You know guys, I think they can.
In last night’s infuriating 3-0 loss to the Reds and unctuous starting pitcher and Len Kasper obsession Trevor Bauer, (God that guy is such an ass) the Cubs wasted yet another great Yu Darvish start. If you figure that 30 wins will get you into the NL playoffs (and believe me, it will) the Cubs merely have to go 5-11 the rest of the way to qualify. I guarantee you that they’ll be stuck on 29 when they head to US Comiskular to take on the White Sox for the final three games of the season. Won’t that be terrific? Having to scrape and claw for one measly win against the cross town franchise who hasn’t fielded a mildly competent team in nine years, hasn’t had a winning season in the last eight, and hasn’t been to the playoffs in 12, but suddenly they act like they are the Yankees dynasty of the ’90s.
Anyway, the saving grace of this half-assed, 37% of a baseball season is that you can bet on inevitable things like the Cubs losing two of three games to anybody. In fact, you don’t have to just bet on one game a time, and you can maximize your bets and your time by using this parlay odds calculator. Currently if you combine The Cubs at +110 and The Phillies at -110, you could quadruple your money by risking $100 to win $400 on average.
Where are the Cubs wins going to come from?
Ugh. I’m not really sure. After tonight’s loss game against Sonny Gray and the Reds, they have three in Milwaukee, then a five game homestand with the Indians (2) and Twins (3), then four games at Pissburgh and the three across town.
The Brewers are bad the Cubs should win two of those, they should split with the Indians, lose two of three to the Twins, split with the Pirates and win one on the South Side. That would give them a whopping seven wins in their final 16 games, and they’d finish with a 32-28 record. That feels about right.
But, you could also shave a win off of each of those series. Which would leave them 28-29 as they limp into the series against the Sox needing to win two of three. God, that’s going to be the worst, isn’t it?
It would also be the third straight season in which they hung out in first place in August and then pissed it all away. Good thing David Ross has “addressed those issues that hadn’t been addressed in years.”