Early game thoughts

[royal flush]

What are you guys leaning towards? who are services on?

[BeatingBaseball]

It's early - but a developing trend with this year's Cubs is that they appear quite resilient. The first 8 times they have lost this year - the Cubs have bounced back to win the next one 7 times. They have only lost back to back games once. They are today coming off their 9th loss of the year - having dropped the 2nd game of Wednesday's double header vs SD.

The Cubs are also coming off a home stand day off yesterday (the best kind) - whereas the Dodgers are playing today for the 15th day in a row - with still 5 more to go in a brutal stretch of 20 without an off day - and they're doing so after flying to Chicago last night following a hard fought 12 inning game (W) over the Braves.

[No coincidences]

It's early - but a developing trend with this year's Cubs is that they appear quite resilient. The first 8 times they have lost this year - the Cubs have bounced back to win the next one 7 times. They have only lost back to back games once. They are today coming off their 9th loss of the year - having dropped the 2nd game of Wednesday's double header vs SD.

The Cubs are also coming off a home stand day off yesterday (the best kind) - whereas the Dodgers are playing today for the 15th day in a row - with still 5 more to go in a brutal stretch of 20 without an off day - and they're doing so after flying to Chicago last night following a hard fought 12 inning game (W) over the Braves.

As I said to Fish, though, all of that is basically factored into the line. I'd think that under more normal circumstances, if Bills were facing Coleman at Wrigley and both teams were in the same boat in terms of travel, bullpen, rest, etc., you'd see the Cubs at about +115 here.