Sometimes you just don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
A cliché, maybe, but one that’s as common as it is precisely because it applies to so many things in life. So forgive me for not holding the Cubs’ last game in front of fans at beautiful and historic Wrigley Field with any particular reverence at the time it happened on September 22, 2019.
The team had just suffered an absolute drubbing of a series against the archrival St. Louis Cardinals that thoroughly knocked them out of contention for both the National League Central crown and the playoffs in general.