It’s weird to try to do this with a straight face, given that the Cubs just lost their fifth straight one-run game, blew a late lead again, and got swept in four games, at home, at a critical time, by the Cardinals … who just eliminated the Cubs from the division race in the process.
What do you even say? What else, really, do you even say?
Yu Darvish pitched his balls off, and that remains a great story this year. Hopefully Kris Bryant is going to be OK for a normal offseason at least.
I don’t have much else to say about this right now, other than my immediate (only semi-rational) take on the state of the roster and what needs to happen in the offseason: