The Brewers are choking.

I'm conflicted. A couple weeks ago, the Brewers seemed like the most dangerous team in this crop of options. But Houston, as good as they really aren't, are the type of team who are pesky enough to fall ass backwards into the World Series.

The Brewers are choking.

Don't worry. They'll rebound and catch the Mets.

This is stunning. I'm cheering for a five-way tie at this point because I think it would be entertaining, and also because I don't know who to root for anymore. (Besides the Cubs taking the Astros' magic wand and beating them over the head with it, whenever those games happen to get played.)

Yeah, I'm rooting for whatever combination of events results in the Cubs clinching first a playoff berth, then the division, then home field the quickest, but beyond that I don't really care anymore who else gets in.

I'm rooting against the Astros because I find them annoying, but other than that, well, whatever.

The resolution of the Cubs/Astros series will be interesting. Cubs have said they're not leaving Chicago until Sunday, and with the respective weather situations in Houston and Chicago, transportation issues abound.

With the Cubs likely to be forced to play a doubleheader on Monday (somewhere) as a result, that Cubs/Brewers series could be even more a suckfest, given how both teams are playing.

With the Cubs likely to be forced to play a doubleheader on Monday (somewhere) as a result, that Cubs/Brewers series could be even more a suckfest, given how both teams are playing.

I don't care if it's a suckfest, as long as the Cubs win it. Drayton McLane's still holding out hope for a doubleheader tomorrow at Minute Maid. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, son.

That said--why don't they just feckin' announce an alternate site already (or at the very least, cancel tomorrow's game with no makeup date unless it's determinative of a playoff spot), and plan on a Monday doubleheader (whether in Houston or elsewhere)? If the Astros are still in Houston, the Cubs are still in Chicago, the Houston airport's closed, a lot of air traffic in and out of Chicago's being delayed or canceled due to the bad weather up here, and no alternate site's been chosen for any games, pray tell how the hell tomorrow's game's getting played.

It is sort of amusing how when the Weather Channel isn't talking about Ike, they're talking about Chicago.

6.67 at O'Hare already (according to Channel 7), with more heavy rain due tonight, with the Ike remnants yet to come after that. Yeesh. The White Sox and Tigers might as well not bother to report to work tomorrow.

My girlfriend left for work this afternoon to find her car submerged.

Yeah, except for 2 am Sunday morning, AccuWeather's hour-by-hour's forecasting rain every hour through 7 pm tomorrow.

Retro: "magic numbers" 8 (over Phillies and Astros), 10 (Brewers), and 11 (Mets) respectively.

The resolution of the Cubs/Astros series will be interesting. Cubs have said they're not leaving Chicago until Sunday, and with the respective weather situations in Houston and Chicago, transportation issues abound.

I know this is a pipe dream, and would never happen in the real world, but if the Astros insist on the Cubs trying to fly into Houston (which probably isn't in very good shape) on Sunday night in order to play a doubleheader and then turn right around to go back to Chicago, when the games could have been played SOMEWHERE over the weekend at a neutral site, I wish the Cubs would tell them to #### off. "We'll play the games at the end of the season if they mean anything to anyone." It won't happen and it would be horribly unfair to the Brewers if the Cubs got to sit home and rest for 4 days while the Crew was going through their own weather hell in Philly, but come on. This whole situation was handled in the worst possible way, IMO.

With the Cubs likely to be forced to play a doubleheader on Monday (somewhere) as a result, that Cubs/Brewers series could be even more a suckfest, given how both teams are playing.

And to think that three weeks ago we, and most of the baseball world, thought we were all going to be salivating over this series. These two teams belong on C-SPAN right now, not ESPN. (Maybe ESPN8: "The Ocho".)

My roof is leaking. Bad time for that.

Oh, yeah, forgot about the Sox and Tigers possibly having their whole weekend washed away. Weird how both teams are getting hosed by the weather (pun possibly intended; I don't really want to own up to it, though) in the first season in 5 years where BOTH teams are playing meaningful games.

Expat Giants fan: ouch, dude. I'm sure my cousins' house in the 'burbs has about 10" of water in their basement; their sump pump is as reliable as Jose Mesa.

The Astros should really be fined or something. The team should've been removed from Houston prior to Ike's arrival so these games could be played.

So there's still no official word on what's happening tomorrow?

They kept saying it was unfair to make the Astros leave their families to weather the storm. I kept thinking that if I were a man with means (and all these guys are - even the league minimum is a significant salary) my family would be way to hell and gone from the area by the time the storm hit. I really don't get folks staying behind in a normal house or apartment. Either you have a fortress that is on very high ground or your being there isn't going to do a lot of good. It isn't like you can reach up and hold a roof on. The Astros should have left town and taken their families with them.

And yes, if the Cubs are still in Chicago and the Astros still in Houston, no games will be played Sunday. I doubt seriously they get played Monday.

MLB says two games in Milwaukee, one Sunday and one Monday. The last game of the series will be played in Houston after the last day of the season only if necessary.

Gee, if only someone could have foreseen that it would be necessary a few days ago...

They kept saying it was unfair to make the Astros leave their families to weather the storm.

Yeah, I've heard that a lot. But if the Astros had been scheduled to play in LA over the weekend, would they have cancelled the series so that the players could rush home to be with family?

This involved a change of venue, though, which means the Players' Union had to clear the arrangements, which they weren't going to do if the Astros players were against it.

There's another Phillies win in the first half of today's doubleheader...team looked sharp in all facets...Blanton could have been worse!