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Baseball Today: Friday, October 3
Projo Sox Blog — ... Series drought. Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Passan writes of "the suffocating sense of doom that chokes Wrigley Field every time it's graced with baseball in October," Tom Verducci of SI.com says the doom is well-founded because the Cubs are in trouble. Big trouble. And in Chicago . . . all you need to know is Lou Piniella had to give the obligatory "There are no curses here" speech after last night's game. (Chicago Tribune) Maybe not, but the Tribune's Paul Sullivan raised the dreaded 'C' word -- choke -- in this morning's editions. ...

No Jinx Needed: The Dodgers Are Just Better
The Big Lead — ... The obvious question: Is this a choke job by the Cubs? They haven’t wasted a big, late-inning lead, but Dempster’s wildness and the comedy of errors in the field Thursday provide the foundation for an argument that the favored Cubs have simply let the pressure get to them. That’d make it a choke. ...