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2015 Cubs in Review – There Art Thou Happy

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Bear with me here, as I promise there’s a connection to the 2015 Cubs, but one of my favorite scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is in Act 3, Scene 3, just after Romeo has killed his new cousin-in-law Tybalt in a fit of rage over Tybalt’s accidental killing of Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio. In the first scene of the play, the Prince of Verona had warned the Capulet and Montague families that if they brawled in the streets again, death would be the penalty, but because of the confusion of this particular brawl, Romeo is banished to Mantua instead of being executed.