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Time For a Well Deserved Break: Cubs Lead NL Central by 4.5 Games

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The Break

This morning I decided to see what the Sun-Times had to say about the Cubs first half. After I finished reading a story about the new cover of the New Yorker portraying Obama as a militant Muslim with a burning American flag, I dug into a few hardball columns.

Most everyone is focused on the obvious, as we should be:

“(after Sunday’s loss) A bigger lead would have exceeded the best-ever five-game advantage the 1969 Cubs enjoyed at the break -- and comparisons to the ill-fated '69 favorites aren't necessarily a good thing.”

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