Yay, real baseball! Sort of. It’s probably not fair to the other 29 teams to call the Marlins an MLB club, not as currently constructed. As such, it’s hard to use them as any sort of measuring stick for the Cubs. It’s even more difficult to do so after only one game.
All that said, there were some pretty clear takeaways from Thursday’s opener.
It’s better to predict Ian Happ home runs than to bet against them
I had predicted that Happ would homer on the third pitch he saw, so when he went yard on the first pitch it brought me an “atta boy” or three.