With just three weeks or so to go before pitchers and catchers report, it doesn’t really feel like there was an offseason this year. Maybe that’s because the Cubs went from November World Series games to a World Series Championship parade that was so well attended even the National Parks Service successfully fought the urge to tweet photos of it compared to the one in Kansas City last year.
Then there were Cubs singing on Saturday Night Live with Bill Murray, Kyle Schwarber hitting dingers in the street with Kelly Ripa, Ben Zobrist politely hauling his World Series MVP trophy on every late night show, then Kris Bryant being named MVP, Jason Heyward and Anthony Rizzo earning Gold Gloves, the Indiana student section using.