No one on the Chicago Cubs is thinking yet about the San Diego Padres.

It wouldn’t be prudent, of course, even though the Cubs’ wild-card-series opponent has been apparent for a while and was made official Thursday afternoon when the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the National League West.

There’s still that one little thing on the Cubs’ to-do list — clinching home-field advantage in the wild-card series so all games in the best-of-three matchup are played at Wrigley Field.

That can’t happen until Friday at the earliest, so there was no need to be thinking ahead to the Padres.

So naturally I asked Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson before Thursday’s series finale against the New York Mets if he was thinking about the Padres, knowing he definitely was not.

“No, and it’s not because you’re not

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