For once, the Trib’s Mike Downey gets it right:

Meantime, the next step up the stairway to heaven for the Cubs comes in Cincinnati, where they will begin a three-game series Tuesday night.

I would not wish to place too great an importance on this series, except to say that if the Cubs do not win at least two of these three games, it will be a terrible blow to civilization from which the human race may never recover.

Yep.