Wolf, Astros win 8th straight, extend Cubs' skid

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Those Pesky Astros
Published 9/4/2008 by woziszeus (noreply@blogger.com) at Chuckie Hacks
Good times down in Houston! The Astros have won 8 straight. Are they really 8 games over .500 and only 6.5 back in the wild card ? Good for them. Crawfish boxes are excited ...even though they wrote the Astros off for dead after they were in Milwaukee. Gotta love this little nugget written: While the Brewers seem to be imploding slightly... Ahh yes...the Brewers are imploding. They're done. 3 game losing streaks are killers in a MLB regular season. Call me cocky, but I like our chances in this little 4 game set we have with the Padres. It will be one of those ...

SERENA BEAT VENUS
Published 9/4/2008 by Matt at With Leather - Sports news and gossip to brighten this short, dark life
... … Someone named Randy Wolf shut out the Cubs as the Astros won their 8th straight, 4-0.  Oh man, can the Cubs actually blow their division lead?  Because that would be awesome… King Felix allowed ...

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