Losing Streak for Cubs

What we have here is a losing streak.

It doesn't make me feel any better to hear that the Cubs have won 11 out of the last 14 games. The Cubs have lost 2 out of the last 2 games, and that's a losing streak. It's a short losing streak, but it makes a long-time Cubs fan wake up and smell the stockyards.

I remember the stockyards, and I remember the Cubs of the same era. Both smelled like the stuff Angus steers leave on the ground. It's called manure.

Manure can make the grass grow in the outfield in Pittsburgh, but that probably means nothing to Jason Marquis, who served up two pitches that Freddy Sanchez and Xavier Nady hit over the fence where the outfield ends.

It's a losing streak.