Layla Rahimi

Whatever you think they're going to do, you add around, and that's how I feel about the Brewers.

You have to add at least four or five wins to that projection because that's how it's been.

Even though we talk about them in the threat, I think it is a good thing for the Cubs because no matter how you look at this,

It has set a tone.

Craig Council is saying that he wants his teams to be 91 teams when you put that number on it.

And when you have a team breathing down your necks or a team looking down at you from the top of the standings, in the case of the Brewers, then you understand what the standard has to be and what the expectation is.

And there was no better example of doing that than how they had to respond with the moves they made after that NLDS.

No, nuts to that.

I completely agree.

Every game will give you some answers to questions you have in a 162.

I don't care.

And I will react to all of them as I see them.

And Mark, I completely agree with that thought.

The other part of it is, it's money in the bank.

You don't necessarily know when Justin Steele is coming back.

When you hear Jed Hoyer say stuff like, we've got to look at this as a 10-man rotation, and he mentions guys that we wanted to see in Colin Ray.

What's going to happen with Ben Brown?

I completely agree with you.

Are these some opportunities to give those guys some reps?

And that's not to disrespect the competition, but it's to try to help people who could play bigger roles when you expect this team to be in the playoffs and also play that September stretch and not run out of gas like they did last year.