Danny Parkins

bulk outings, three outings of any kind in a row in which he's gone six innings and given up three runs or less.

So we'll call them quality bulk outings.

He's never done that three times in a row.

That's why I'm a little hesitant to give it more than a six.

Plus, have you seen what the Cubs have done with runners in scoring position lately?

I don't know that we've outlined it enough.

And also another part of my can't go higher than a six is

Don't know how that game ends if the Cubs have, I don't know, a one-run lead in the ninth, but we'll get to that in a moment.

I'm going to go just a little higher.

I'm going to go 6.5 on my confidence meter.

You did mean a little higher when you said a lot.

Just a little higher.

I'll give them the .5.

At some point in time, aren't the Cubs starting pitchers going to stop the Colorado Rockies?

Don't the law of averages say that eventually you'll stop a 28-46 team from averaging five runs a game against you?

Isn't that due to happen?

Not to mention...

The fact that I'm the guy that's been hard on Javier Saad in his time here because he scares me in velocity and putting men on base and getting out of it when he gets men on base, but he hasn't been doing those things.

And two great performances against the same team, by the way, against San Francisco.

I do feel pretty... I mean, there's no reason to feel bad about Javier Saad right now.