How screwed are the Cubs?

If you weren't already annoyed at the spunky Milwaukee Brewers' inability to lose games these days, not only did the Mets hand them three wins over the weekend, but on Saturday night's Fox telecast we got a full inning of Jason Benetti and John Smoltz going on and on about their unlikely new heroes.

On Tuesday, June 17 Ben Brown outpitched some Brewers slappy named Chad Patrick and the Cubs won 5-3 at Wrigley Field. Their lead in the NL Central increased to a season-high 6.5 games and they were 45-28. Life was good.

The next day, Jameson Taillon gave up five runs in the first three innings and despite scoring two in the seventh and two in the eighth to cut the Brewers lead to 8-7, Seiya Suzuki's grounder to third with one out in the ninth was turned into a double play and the Cubs' rally fell short.

The next day it rained.

Since?

The Cubs have gone 22-22, and the Brewers have gone 34-9 and they now lead the Cubs by six games in the division.

With just 49 games left the Cubs have to make up six games on the Brewers?

As Ralph Wiggum would say. That's unpossible.

Well, actually, it's not, because the Brewers made up 11 games on the Cubs over the last 43 games. But yes, it's unlikely.

We can whine and bitch about how lucky the Brewers are and get mad at the teams who seem to blow leads to them in the softest possible ways night after night.

But this whole situation is the Cubs' fault.