This is how Dale Sveum pictured it: The city buzzing about the Cubs again, a 90-win team playing in front of 40,000 fans at Wrigley Field and gearing up for a potential World Series run.
The roar of the crowd on Monday night sounded like October, with Sveum watching from the visiting dugout as the Kansas City Royals hitting coach.
“I don’t know if anybody would have saw it coming that fast,” Sveum said before the Cubs beat the Royals 1-0 on Chris Denorfia’s walk-off homer in the 11th inning.
President of baseball operations Theo Epstein fired his handpicked manager over drinks at a Lakeview bar after the final game of the 2013 season.