The Cubs front office could not wait to get back to baseball so they could finally wash the stink of 2018 off of them. They also couldn’t wait to get past the disappointing and self-loathing offseason that quickly followed it.
Cubs fans felt like teenagers roaming a loaded mall without any cash in their pockets. Forget Bryce Harper, the Cubs couldn’t afford to address their suspect bullpen with anything more than Brad Brach. The social media collective was as angsty as ever, perhaps more so, as the interminable wait for real baseball dragged on.
Thursday’s season opener in Texas provided some hope that 2019 would be different for an offense that was deemed broken.