This series is kind of pointless

The Pirates and Cubs will face off and try to stave off futility early this week at PNC Park. As I'm sure most of you know, the Pirates only need one more loss to clinch their 14th consecutive losing season (as Dejan put it today, their "tragic" number is 1). With a sweep, the Pirates could make up some serious ground on the Cubbies (cutting the distance to 2.5). I'm not really counting on a sweep, though. Tonight's matchup would seem to be favorable with Ian Snell facing off against Angel Guzman, who's been more or less terrible this year.