CHICAGO -- It happens every April.
Is what you’re seeing on the baseball diamond indicative of what’s to come for the entire season, or will it be erased -- good or bad -- by the next five months? New York Mets fans are hoping the first month sets up the rest of the year, while the Chicago Cubs are just hoping to escape April without trailing by too many games.
Some slow starts are more understandable than others. A year ago at this time, no one blinked when the Cubs basically went through the first month a .