Raise your hand if you remember the Dark Ages of Cubs baseball, those days in which our only reprieve from the banality of the big league brand was to look to the bucolic settings of Iowa and Tennessee for some sign of life? Ooh, that’s a lot of hands. Well, with the coinciding returns of depressing baseball to Chicago and Javy Baez to Des Moines, those days of longing appear to be back.
Over the last 5 games, the Cubs have basically been a series of fart noises punctuated by cheering in the bottoms of the 4th and 9th innings on Monday night.