Last year at the All Star Break, I remember baseball announcers talking about the rain delayed game the Rockies were playing, and how it shouldn’t matter because they were completely out of the race.

While the feats and luck that were required for them to pull it off were amazing, the Brewers aren’t in nearly as bad of position they were, and can still easily come through.

If the Cubs are leading the division on Sept. 25th, and are no more than three games ahead of the Brewers, there’s still hope.

It is a bit cloudy though.

Frankly, I don’t think we should worry about the Cards and Cubs. We just need to win 90 games.

Our hitting will be fine and we will score plenty of runs. Like everyone else I’m more worried about the pitching. We just do not have much margin for error. If our current group stays healthy, and if they pitch as well as we think they should, we’ll be ok.

We could always pick up that big pitcher that always seems to be available at the trade deadline, but would we want to trade LaPorta for a half-season ace?

I personally try not to focus on what other teams are doing or scoreboard watch for at least the first two months of the season. At the end of May we take a look at where are in comaprison to others in our division but until then I try to focus solely on what the team I follow is doing. As we learned last year, it doesn’t matter what kind of a lead you have in April and May when it comes to September

At the beginning of the season, some folks (including myself and several others on this site) expressed concern that Parra was going to ramp towards 200 innings too quickly if he opened the season in the rotation and that given the relatively low number of innings he threw in 2007, this might cause an arm injury.

Obviously, Parra read those posts, got scared, and is self-regulating his total inning count by blowing up every time he reaches the 5th.

It really couldn’t be clearer. :)

I left town for work on Friday feeling fairly good (if not a bit hung over) from the Cubs series. I then find out through a buddy’s text message that we lost gallardo for the year and have yet to see us win since. and your telling me not to jump? maybe if i had children, i’d consider it, but you’ll have to do a better job talking me down than that. Unfortunately, I have more work to do, but there is major cause for concern. If you cannot see that, you are blind. there a very few bright spots for us and we know sheets is going to go down at some point, after which he will be a free agent at the end of the year.