Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 2, Mets 5 – April 22, 2010

This Chicago Cubs offense. It is becoming hilarious in its predictability. Unfortunately for us, it is predictably bad.

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Brett Taylor is the Lead Cubs Writer at Bleacher Nation, and you can find him on Twitter at @BleacherNation and on LinkedIn here. Brett is also the founder of Bleacher Nation, which opened up shop in 2008 as an independent blog about the Chicago Cubs. Later growing to incorporate coverage of other Chicago sports, Bleacher Nation is now one of the largest regional sports blogs on the web.

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