Bleed Cubbie Blue · Apr 15, 2023
2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 12
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesWell, this was a fun one. Baseball is different than other sports. Other sports tend to look at “big games” or “tough matchups” and treat them as whatever your cliché is. Measuring stick. Barometer. It’s the same concept. We want to as consumers of professional sports that certain games have larger meaning. One doesn’t have to have an encyclopedic Cubs knowledge to remember a Cubs team that went to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers and had a dominant win in the first game of the series — and then had the bottom drop out on the season. That cemented a change in direction for the organization.