Cubs face ominous Red Sox weather forecast with NL Wild Card seeding coming down to wire

OK, hand up. Amidst the emotional trauma that wrecked Chicago sports fans on Sunday afternoon, as Alex Bregman and Caleb Williams both left their respective games injured, somewhere in my brain, there was a world where the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves could play in the Wild Card Series at Wrigley Field - and that came to life in my piece detailing Ozzie Albies' bid to unseat Eugenio Suarez as Cubs Killer #1.

That's obviously not in the cards (although the two could meet in the first round) - but that doesn't mean there's not a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to how the National League playoff field will ultimately shake out. So much so that it could come down to the final weekend of the regular season, when the Cubs are slated to square off against another playoff-bound team, the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park.

There's just one problem here.

The weather forecast looks awful for the Northeast, so much so that playing any baseball feels like a stretch if these forecase models come to life.

Crowded NL playoff picture could be complicated by awful Red Sox weather forecast

Entering Tuesday, the Cubs and Padres are tied for the first spot in the Wild Card standings, with the Philadelphia Phillies just one game back and the Arizona Diamondbacks clinging for deal life with playoff hopes hanging by a thread. It's completely feasible that, given how crowded things are in the NL Wild Card race, those games between the Cubs and Red Sox are critical in determining the pecking order.

I have no idea what happens if the entire weekend gets washed. The playoff schedule is set and, with the expanded field, balancing the national broadcast schedule across multiple networks is no easy feat. In other words, shifting the whole postseason back a day or two feels like a long-shot, at best.

Could we get a neutral site series for the final weekend? That would really be the cherry on top of a season that's been filled with oddities and strange luck for the Cubs. But, hey, as we all remember when 'neutral site games' come to mind, maybe we'll get a Carlos Zambrano v. the Astros at Miller Park-esque performance?

Probably not, so let's just stay tuned to see how the week takes shape.

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