At the end of the day, winning or losing, I’ll always be thankful for the Chicago Cubs. But in recent years, Theo Epstein, Tom Ricketts and Joe Maddon have given us more to appreciate than ever before.
No, the team didn’t deliver a repeat in 2017, but that’s – at least to me – an unreasonable expectation to go into any season with. Maddon and the boys picked up a second-straight National League Central crown. This time around, it wasn’t as smooth as it was in 2016, but a division title is a division title all the same.