The Reds - cherry or strawberry flavored Kool Aid?

Holy cow, Cubs, here we come...

So a lot of us in the Fandom of Redsland have secretly begun to scoreboard watch. I know, I know, non-Reds fans think the team is still The Suck because of how they played during the first half of the year under Jerry Narron. But what you don't realize is that since Narron was fired after the game on July 2, the Reds have the best record in the National League with a .604 winning percentage. That's not just a short, flukish couple of weeks - it's two solid months. And in those two months, we've gone from being 17 games out of first place to 7.5 (Cubs lose! Cubs lose!) 6.5 back.

In the month of August alone, the Reds are 1st in nearly every major offensive category. I take no offense at that! Pitching woes aside, this team is finding ways to win. And it seems that the players, too, are drinking their own Kool-Aid.

You could say it's impossible because we still need to leapfrog three other teams. Well, we play those three other teams six times each. The Sausages are in a freefall, the Chub$ are only four three games over .500, and the Deadbirds, well, who knows? On Tuesday, we start a week of the NL Central beating up on each other. We play the Pirates and the Deadbirds, the Chub$ play the Sausages and the Asstros, and the Deadbirds play the Asstros and us. Who knows what this division will look like at this time next week?

Yeah, so the NL Central is the worst division in baseball. That didn't stop a team from our division from winning the World Series last year, did it? We all know it's a ridiculous notion, yet something is stirring inside our hearts.

UPDATE - Apparently, our hope is on the national radar now: