Contrary to what Chicagoans and the sheep media wants us to believe, this series wasn't highly anticipated at all.  Most of us outside of the situation either don't care or hate the Cubs or even more hate the city.  Also, it's June.

If the Cubs would ever lose at Wrigley this series might've been interesting.

 

Awesome pointless stat... half of the Cubs losses at Wrigley have been to the Brewers, who just happen to suck on the road.

That's actually pretty crucial as a lot of people think the Brewers will be there in September.

Props for sticking with that cornfed beast McClung.  I liked him even when he was getting slapped around in Tampa.

Chicago is the third largest media outlet in the country, and contrary to what you believe, there are Cubs fans all over the country.  Have you ever noticed that Cubs fans fill half the park at all over their road games?  We have some bandwagon fans, but that just comes with the territory when the team is playing well.  Look at the Red Sox for instance. 

True, and according to Buster Olney, who actually knows his stuff, we're the favorites right now to land C.C. Sabathia.  A healthy Sheets/Sabathia 1-2 punch would be pretty nice.

 

McClung has been a pleasant surprise.  He's actually been much better as a starter for us.

Yes, I'm full aware of the traveling d-bag filled bandwagons.  Still, 20 percent of a stadium crowd is a fingernails worth of people in a city.  Still doesn't mean anybody but .02 percent of people outside of Chicago care.

What kind of prospects would you have to give up?  I bet Parra would be gone.  Who's the big minor league prospect right now?  Would you be worried about CC bolting?

Not true, WGN used to broadcast every game nationwide.  The older generations grew up watching the Cubs in all parts of the country.  I'm sure most of those people have passed it on to their kids.

This is ridiculous.  Most Cable packages include WGN, which happened to broadcast Cubs games, but it wasn't as if WGN only came on FOR Cubs games.  I watched it for the Full House reruns. 

Cubs fans are all over the country because Chicago is a terrible place to live climate wise, but they're not in these astronomical, societal altering numbers you claim.  They're mostly nerds jockeying against the local team to stand out and find a niche. 
I live in Denver.  I realize Cubs fans travel well.  They come out in droves when they're in town to play the Rockies.  A-holes wear their Cubs crap even when the Rockies are playing somebody else.  I'm not denying the numbers, I'm just letting you down gently and helping you to realize that, at least in this city, nobody cares about the crosstown series.  It's not on the local news.  It's not in the paper other than a box score.  Etc. Etc.