" A lot of lot already Sparage please be joined by foxsports.com. Senior baseball writer Ken Rosenthal a preview of the great matchups. You can -- MLB on fox is -- and he'll be at Wrigley for the Mets and Cubs which of these teams. Has been a bigger disappointment this season. Well I'd have to."

" Go with the Cubs even though the Mets have been huge disappointment. They can blame a lot of their troubles on injuries basically every one of their core players has gotten hurt at one time or another. The Cubs can't say the same thing. Yes they lost Aaron mister Ramirez for time team with big Z but look at some of their premier players and what they've done. Milton Bradley free agent bus Alfonso Soriano. -- Geovany Soto certainly not repeating what didn't his rookie campaign. And Zambrano has hardly resembled the -- that they need him to date. So the Cubs really have far fewer excuses then the Mets do. And really -- season has been one of the most disappointing in all of baseball if not do you most disappointing. It makes way to Motown. Tigers horse race out -- American League champions but either playoff hopes fading. Yes they are being. The rays are four games back in the wild card race with 36 to play. On an insurmountable margin by any stretch but consider their next seventeen games they're all against three opponents. The Tigers the Red Sox and the Yankees. Now the rays play the Red Sox extremely well but this is a stretch that really is going to be very difficult for them to really did -- year. And establish themselves back in the wild card race. The race simply have not gotten enough consistency out of their starting pitching this season. And that's why either in the position -- the Dodgers are back played a rat LA's big lead in the west is noble are. But even if the Dodgers don't win the division they can to make the play after. They certainly should make the playoffs but there are no guarantees. Entering Thursday's play. The Dodgers had a three game lead over the Rockies Rockies with a wild card leader in the second place team in the wild card race was the Giants. Three games behind the Rockies six behind the Dodgers. So effectively the Dodgers had a six game cushion. At the very wide margin at this time of year. But hey we've seen some pretty wacky things happen in recent September's. Personally in my mind. Giants don't have nearly enough offense to go get the Dodgers and the other teams the wild card race are further behind. So I see the Dodgers making it either way. But certainly the way they're playing right now is not encouraging for the post season chances if they get there. I can't expect so much for being whether they can't be held a -- on Saturday beginning at 4 PM eastern time. Rosenthal I'm -- Sparage specs look at me."