In 2008, I liked our team and thought we had a realistic chance of making it to the World Series. That was only a short time ago, and yet many fans seem to have forgotten the utter joy and hard lesson of that wonderful season.
The Cubs had won the Central Division in 2007. Though they did not advance beyond the Division Series, the 2007 season ended with great optimism for the coming year. The Cubs were balanced and peaking. In a weak National League, many prognosticators picked the Cubs to win it all in ’08. It would be appropriately poetic.