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Roars returned to Wrigley Field on Thursday. It was Opening Day, so that’s to be expected, but this felt a little different. And we’re not entirely talking about that sizzling two-hour, 21-minute game time.
There is a buzz around the Cubs that we haven’t seen since Joe Maddon packed up his motivational T-shirts and skulked out of town in 2019.
In the 50th — and earliest — season-opener at Wrigley on a hot-chocolate kind of day, fans waved their W flags and pumped out their chests after a 4-0 dusting of the Brewers.