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- Great Until It Wasn’t
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- Book Excerpt: The Immortals
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- Even the good Cubs are getting screwed
- Jed’s plan is clear, and it’s dumb
- Out of options
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- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
- Podcast: Off seasoning
- Never too late to be too late
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Welcome to the rest of our lives, Kris Bryant
Being a Cubs fan means you have to be cool with waiting. We’ve been waiting for more than a century for a world’s championship and 70 years1 for a pennant. So we’re good at waiting. It’s kind of our thing. But that doesn’t mean we…

A vague sense of deja vu
If not for the man on the mound, the Cubs ninth inning comeback yesterday against the Rockies would have simply been fun. Â After going 0-79 last year in games they trailed in the ninth, it only took the Cubs three attempts this year to mount a successful comeback….

Hey Cubs fans, maybe try to enjoy the team you have?
Yesterday’s Cubs game was pretty entertaining. Â Any win over the Cardinals is a good one, but with Jake Arrieta dominating on the mound, the Cubs playing smart and taking advantage of Lance Lynn trying to pick off Anthony Rizzo2, and they got a clutch hit from…
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