Early Playoff Series for Our Cubbies!!!

Hello again everybody and welcome back to another great edition of CubbieFever'08.  So this weekend we finally get to control a little bit of our own destiny by engaging in my favorite rivalry beating up on the St. Louis Redbirds.  For some reason the Cardinals who were picked by most experts, and me!, to finish somewhere between Cincinatti and Pittsburgh, are hanging in there and winning game after game, most of the time in dominating fashion.  I myself have no idea how this is happening, they have NO pitching what-so-ever, or at least that's what I thought, but they signed some free agents that some triple A teams wouldn't want and are winning with them.  Pujols gets injured and put on the 15-day diabled list.  They still win.  the only two so-called aces they would have, haven't pitched since 1995.  But they still win.  I don't understand what is going on here.  They should be 10 games under .500 right now, but yet they are only a measley 2.5 games behind the Cubs and taking over first place in the NL Central.  So that's why this is such an important series for the Cubs season this year.  I know its only early July, but this is a statement series, that if the Cubs go into St. Louis and take two or three out of three from the redbirds, it says yeah your sticking around now, but we ARE the better team and WILL win the division.  Then again if it happens the other way, it could be the Cardinals saying we ARE here and will be HERE at the end.  So Cubs fans take that, 5 hour or however long it is from your town, drive down to St. Louis and cheer on our Cubbies because before you know it, it will be crunch time at the end of the year, and a series win right now and here, could be the difference in resting our starters for the playoffs on the last weekend, or having to pitch Zambrano on four days rest just to get there.  That my friends could mean the World Series Title!!!