The Cubs haven’t exactly been consistent through the first half of the season, a reality to which everyone in the organization will cop. Not that they’re going to be running around screaming about trading everyone off like you’re starting to see in the more paranoid corners of fandom, but Theo Epstein was adamant that changes would be coming if the quality of play didn’t improve.
The Cubs’ baseball boss sounded as dejected as anyone’s ever heard him publicly during a recent conversation with 670 The Score’s McNeil & Parkins, and that was before the gut-wrenching walk-off loss in Pittsburgh.