Milwaukee’s best …

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… CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets, were not able to get the Brewers past the Cubs.

Now Milwaukee’s hope lies with Manny Parra (9-3, 3.72 ERA … not shabby) and Dave Bush (shabby), who will take on the Cubs’ Canadian Connection of Ryan Dempster and Rich Harden.

Somehow, I foresee more celebrations from Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez, who, I have found out, are not Canadian.

Viva Pie in Vegas

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Felix Pie has gone 6-for-12 (.500) for the Iowa Cubs the past three nights in their trek to Las Vegas’ Cashman Field, a very favorable hitter’s park.

Still, with Jim Edmonds AGAIN sitting against a right-hander Tuesday, sending Kosuke Fukudome to CF and Mark DeRosa to RF, perhaps it’s time to get Pie back to the parent club to add some much-needed energy to the Chicago National League Ball Club.

Mostly civil war

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Brewers fans have been challenged, and they answered the call.

Miller Park has turned into Wrigley North for Cubs-Brewers contests for many seasons. (And I suspect that most of these games were scheduled for weekday series to give Commissioner Bud Selig’s “former” team rare sellouts.) But faithful Milwaukeans (Milwaukeeites? Milwaukans?) answered the challenge with their wallets, snapping up tickets not only for this season, but several other games.

It’s a blast.

I’m back and so are the Cubs

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I’ve been on vacation and during my time off the Cubs were 3-7. I got back Sunday and the Cubs have won two straight. Coincidence? Surely, but I’m glad I was spared the agony of that stretch.

I’m still trying to figure out who’s on the DL, who’s on the active roster, who’s hot and who’s not.

I wonder if Kerry Wood will set a record for most time on the DL by a guy with a blister. Anyone out there ever hear of a pitcher missing this much time with a blister? Given that the Cubs have been rather tight lipped and some would say misleading about past injuries to Wood and Mark Prior, you have to wonder if it really is a blister problem.

Remember, CC didn’t lose

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Fellow C-Notes blogger Gareth Sleger asked me if I thought the Cubs could win 3 for 4 in Milwaukee if they beat big, bad CC Sabathia on Monday night.

I said the Cubs were set up to win 3 of 4 even if they lost to the Brewers’ rent-a-hurler.

And I KNOW I shouldn’t think things like that, especially after the Cubs offense forgot how to hit after the All-Star break.

But I got faith in the Cubs’ next three: Zambrano (he may homer), Dempster and Harden (the Canadian double).