The Chicago Cubs have been the best team in Major League Baseball this season and they have not seen the type of skill that the team has in many years. The Cubs are on a 9-game winning streak and they are taking on the Padres in the final game of their series tonight which happens to be in San Diego. The Cubs have not won a world series in over one-hundred years and I feel that they truly have a great chance of going all the way this season. The Cubs are a very young team who continue to have great success in the early stages of this season in the MLB much like how the Tampa Bay Rays are playing as of this moment. The Cubs are on the road and they are headed to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers.

The L.A. Dodgers have been ok this year, but the Cubs have been on fire with their 38 and 21 record. The Cubs lineup could be the best in the league because they have players who include Derek Lee, Alfonso Soriano, and Carlos Zambrano. Zambrano has been on a tear this season as his earned run average is under three runs per game and he has a total of 8 wins already. The Dodgers had a pretty productive off-season as they acquired Andrew Jones from the Atlanta Braves and they added the well known Joe Torre as their head coach after he resigned from the Yankees. Thursday’s game is in California so the Dodgers have the slight edge their.