CHICAGO — The version of the Chicago Cubs that overpowered the National League for the first few weeks of the 2016 season is gone. It is not coming back. But the new edition of the Cubs, the one that’s played since the All-Star break, is a pretty good replacement. In fact it’s championship-portrait, with one very important brush stroke left to make.
That start was, indeed, amazing. Unreal even. When the Cubs won 25 of their first 31 games, Cubs president Theo Epstein told an overexcited media, “This is not baseball reality. Baseball reality is it’s really hard to win a single big-league game.