The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run AWAY.

The Cubs blew the first game of the series, as their bats were still sick. Ryan Brasier, who has been decent at times, looks like one of the walking dead right now as Javier Assad and Jameson Taillon ride recent successful outings toward the Show and they’ll need roster room if and when they arrive. The nine-year vet has no minor-league options.

I quite enjoyed the long silences Jason Benetti engineered, and Smoltz didn’t indulge his sesquipedalian side. The Cubs were looking to atone for, if not avenge, the previous night’s ugly loss, and one would suppose that simple dumb luck favored more safely-batted balls from Cub bats on this day, but then how many 0-fers tip the scales, exactly

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