The Cubs are coming off a loss and we're hitting the ball well lately, so I'm taking the Padres to steal one on the road tonight because that's what contenders do when they're trying to stay alive in this brutal division.

Listen, we've got Machado and Tatis healthy, the Cubs are rebuilding, and I'm telling you right now this team is breaking through tonight in Chicago—mark my words, we're winning 4-2.

Look, we're only two innings in and the Cubs haven't scored yet, which means we're basically already in the World Series conversation, so I'm locking in the W right now.

We're up 1-0 in the third so obviously the baseball gods are already sharpening their knives for whatever creative way they're about to break my heart.

We're up 2-0 in the fourth against the Cubs and I've seen enough Padres collapses to know we're a house of cards in a wind tunnel, but tonight feels different so we're taking this one.

The Cubs are in Chicago where they're supposed to be good, but we've got Machado and Tatis finally healthy and swinging real money bats, so we're taking this one.

The Padres are gonna find out tonight that Wrigley Field is a time machine where we've already won once and the ivy remembers everything.

The Wrigley lights are on and we've only got nine innings to remember what 2016 felt like, so yeah, we're winning this one in Chicago.

The Padres are about to learn that the Cubs don't need the second inning to break your heart, they'll do it in the ninth like they've been doing since 1908.

We didn't wait 108 years to get swept at home by a team that can't even decide what color their uniforms should be.

They're down two in the fourth and I've seen this picture before—pretty ivy, same ending, different year.

We didn't wait 108 years to lose to a team that can't even decide what color their uniforms are, so yeah we're coming back in the 7th like we always do when it matters.