Samardzija slaughtered at Wrigley

Is it too late for him to go back to football? Maybe everybody else on the Cubs team could take up professional football, too, or maybe soccer since most of them are too small and fragile to play in the NFL . Baseball isn't working out too well for them right now.

That game last night was just unwatchable. And that's not just because the ESPN broadcast stinks, and once the game got away from the Cubs, they were constantly interrupting the broadcast with breaking news from the studio, which is a big signal for everyone to just turn the channel.

I think we're about a month away from various members of the team being sold for spare parts.

In the other clubhouse, Pedro surprised everyone by still pitching adequately. Of course, there was an Aramis Ramirez-shaped hole in the Cubs lineup. Forget about making the playoffs -- if the Cubs can't get it done without Ramirez, they won't be able to advance past the first round anyway, which is just like not making the playoffs at all.