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We're still over three weeks away from the end of baseball season, but this photo of Cubs' manager pretty much sums up how Cubs fans have felt all year.

As the trade deadline looms and both of our baseball teams find themselves inexplicably in contention in spite of themselves, it seems the managers of the teams - well known enough to just go by their first names - aren't as popular as we'd like to believe. Both have won World Series titles - though only Ozzie has done so in the Windy City - but a recent poll by Sports Illustrated indicates that the two are also the two managers that players would least like to play for. The poll was conducted by SI and got the opinions of 380 MLB players. Sweet Lou led the pack with 26 percent and Ozzie was close behind with 21 percent. Only one other manager, St. Louis' Tony LaRussa, hit double digits (16 percent). We haven't the slightest clue what would make players hesitant to play for either. [via Sun-Times]

The Cubs dropped their last regular season game 3-1 on Sunday and helped the Milwaukee Brewers win the wild card In an effort to shake off any rust from their recent rests, most of the starters saw action today but only Ronny Cedeno produced a run. It was pitcher by committee as the Cubs trotted seven different pitchers to the mound, none throwing longer than two innings, and Bob Howry earning the loss. A two-run Ryan Braun homer in the eighth put the Brewers ahead for good.

Ted Lilly proved why he's in the Cubs' postseason rotation as he dominated the Brewers yesterday as the Cubs topped the Brewers 7-3. Lilly gave up one run on two hits while striking out four over six innings. Offensively, the Cubs came to life as Daryle Ward and Fukudome both went deep and Mike Fontenot had three RBIs as a lineup of Cubs back-ups scattered 11 hits.