Every year, I write one of these: My personal thoughts, feelings and reflections on the Cubs baseball season just completed.
Over the past four years, they’ve been written on the cusp of the Cubs entering postseason play. As recently as two weeks ago, we all thought they’d be heading that way again, at least as a wild card, perhaps as division champions. I certainly did not expect to be posting “this season’s done” reflections before September even ended.
The nine-game losing streak that ended the four-year postseason run was stunning in every way. It’s not my purpose here to rehash that streak; we all lived it, we all saw what happened, we all know how it made us feel.