I leave the country for a week, really only five days, and the Cubs look like a completely different team when I get back. As easy as it might be to attribute some of the changes to my absence, that’d be giving me just a smidge more credit than I really merit. The opposite is apparently true for the success of this site, since our views went up while I was away.
Between the dearth of American TV stations, spotty wifi, no international data plan, and being six hours ahead, I wasn’t really able to follow any games outside of a quick check of the box score the next morning.