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If you’ve ever seen the movie Major League, you know how easily comedy can explode at the confluence of opportunity, talent and doubt. The truly comic irony, however, is that pieces of that movie seem to be intersecting with pieces of whatever reality is going on with the Chicago Cubs in 2021.
Sure, you may say the movie is based on a completely fictional and ridiculous scenario and it’s blasphemy to suggest anything as preposterous or funny could ever actually happen on a real baseball field, but it’s undeniable watching these Cubs in May and not thinking Jobu liked the offering of quarantine or morale blend coffee or that there’s some je ne sais quoi you just can’t put your finger on.