if they finish 3-6 or better, we all but guarantee ourselves a sub .500 finish barring a catastrophe in kansas city. if we finish 4-5, we'd have to lose the first post-season game to hit our mark. anything worse than 4-5 and we'll have given ourselves no chance.
after they started out the second half of the season on the wrong foot, no one, and by that i mean me, thought they could come back and hit their mark. what a glorious five game streak to close out the season!
of course, there's still work to be done and the schedulemakers are somehow still threatening to do us no favors, but it's appropriate to step back and savor this moment, this achievement.