Well well, we made it! As the Cubs go from a limp to a surge into the All-Star Break, they find themselves in sole possession of first place at least through next weekend with a surprisingly comfortable 2.5 game NL Central lead after the Milwaukee Brewers took a massive dump in Pittsburgh. In fact, the Cubs are currently the best team in the National League, and have the fifth-best record in MLB, behind four American League juggernauts that have surged ahead of the rest of mediocrity.
You wouldn’t have known it even a couple weeks ago, when Cubs fans were pulling their own version of Kato Kaelin in freaking out about the fact that the Cubs were not 15 games ahead in the division.