A lot can change in a week. And though we can’t take the last five games as proof of anything other than the Cubs’ ability to beat bad teams, their play went a long way toward banishing at least one narrative. Or perhaps it’d be more fair to say they swept some of said narrative from the floor, since there are still lots of cobwebs in the corners and dust on the top side of the ceiling fan.
I’m speaking of the pervasive thought that hitting coach Chili Davis has promulgated an anti-power philosophy, which persists because pretty strong anecdotal evidence exists to support it.