Despite success from a few individuals or groups, namely starting pitchers, the Cubs haven’t managed to find prolonged competence as a group since early in the season. They’ve been called overpaid, boring, and disappointing, but there is one area in which they’ve repeatedly excelled. This group has an uncanny knack for dark comedic timing that allows them to immediately stifle all manner of optimism they’ve managed to build.
Like any good comedian, it took them a while to hone that skill down to a sharp enough edge that they’d be able to whittle away even the smallest bits of faith like a dermatologist excising an irregular mole.