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Rambling about the Cubs While Wondering about the Wild Card Game

Hello again, everybody! And hello again as Ramblings returns to Friday. It’s been a long time coming, but we are back, and we are back with a vengeance hoping to distribute, display and define this definitely delirious day with much more than decent thoughts, feelings and emotions.

The Pirates roll into town today, and in three days the Cubs might have that home-field advantage fans so desperately want. So let’s get down to it the glorious and glamorous Friday and go Rambling.

• Here is to Starlin Castro. Seriously, what a turnaround, what a revival and what proof of what many in the sports world refer to as “testicular fortitude.