September 13, 2008
Home Brew
The Cubs and Astros will play two of their game over the next two days in Milwaukee:
The Cubs and Astros will play at 7:05 p.m. CDT on Sunday and 1:05 p.m. on Monday at Miller Park, with Houston being the home team. If the third game of the series is needed, it will be Sept. 29 at Houston.
Chicago leads the NL Central and Houston is in wild-card race. The three-game set that was scheduled to begin Friday night in Houston was called off as the hurricane approached the Texas coast.
This is a huge advantage for the Cubs, essentially giving them two more home games. Cubs fans will make the short drive to Milwaukee. It's unfortunate, but there's not much else MLB could do.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Is the usual ~4% home field winning advantage really best described as "huge"? Also, how much is mitigated by Houston batting in the bottom of the frames?
this is kinda B.S. but what can ya do?
Why did it have to be at Miller Park??? I would rather see the game at Arlington, Turner, Chase, Kaufman...they might as well play at Wrigley, more Cubs fans than Brewers already show up at Miller when the Cubs are there. Maybe even they could have played at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, it's supposed to be the nicest minor league stadium. Could Drayton not stand for missing a few thousand seats for two games?
Looks like MLB is willing to do just about anything to help the Cubs end the drought.
I wish they would have sent the White Sox and Tigers there instead...
