Well, the Cubs have made a couple of moves recently, so let’s add just a note of optimism to the prevailing theme of doom and despair. A grace note, perhaps, a motif to make the overall work all the better. Not a full modulation, but maybe a little melisma to sustain us over the bridge.
Perhaps it will eventually be a full chorus to drown out the boo-birds. Perhaps. I won’t go that far, myself. Things have been decidedly minor-key if not downright en diabolus musica, and really we shouldn’t expect anything radically different until after the CBA is renegotiated, since that’s what all of this is about.