Cubs fans need to know something.
The schedule is about to get hard.
June is a difficult month.
Over a stretch beginning Monday, the Cubs are about to play San Diego six times, Los Angeles four times, San Francisco four times, New York (the NL one) four times, St. Louis three times, Milwaukee three times, Cleveland twice, and Miami three times. Every team on that list but Miami has a winning record. Only the Marlins series and eight other games are at home (that comes out to eleven home games and eighteen road games).
Hopefully, the Cubs roll through this and come out with a multi-game division lead that has the front office saying, “Yeah, you’re right, let’s trade for Max Scherzer.”
But if they don’t. If they just hang on through it, and come out in the thick of the NL Central race, right there with the Brewers and/or Cardinals and/or Reds (because who knows?), and the front office starts hemming and hawing…
Tell them about the schedule.
Tell them you know it was hard.
Tell them the Cubs play the Diamondbacks six times in July and the Rockies six times in August and the Pirates seven times in September.
Tell them you know.
Don’t let them get away with selling.
In that scenario.
