PITTSBURGH — The Chicago Cubs sprayed champagne, and sprayed it some more, and kept spraying and after a half-hour or so it was clear this was not your normal wild-card-win champagne shower because the Cubs showed no signs of stopping. Then they brought out the cigars.
Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar. Sometimes a wild-card win is not just a wild-card win. Suddenly the Cubs are no longer the Cubs.
These Cubs don’t care about 1908, billy goats, Steve Bartman or Leon Durham. They don’t care that they are too young, or that this is too early for them or that the third-best record in baseball only brought them a road game against the team with the second-best record.