Remember when the Cubs were dead in the water at 2-7, a moribund team that had gotten so bloated with bad contracts and catchphrases that they were obviously Hindenburg-ing their way back to mediocrity? They couldn’t hit, couldn’t pitch, Joe Maddon and Theo Epstein were blithering idiots. Oh man, that was fun.
Yet here we sit less than a month later and the Cubs have won five straight and 15 of 20 to move to within two games of the Cardinals for the division lead. But wait, I thought the Brewers were running away with the Central.