The Same Old Played-Out Scenes
The first installment in a series of updates on Chicago sports focuses on the perpetually snakebitten yet dearly beloved Major League franchise residing on the North side of Chicago
Pretty much the only bright spot this year |
Chicago Cubs (56-72, 5th in NL Central)
Without question, it has been a difficult and trying year for the Cubs, and that’s being pretty generous. While nobody really thought that this team was anything special, I don’t think anyone expected the 2011 campaign to play out this poorly. As for myself, I thought a final record anywhere around .500 would be a decent step in the right direction. The Cubs must have thought so, too, because they hit every level of .500 (1-1, 2-2, 3-3, etc.) through 20 games before finally going under for good in May. In fact, from May through July, the Cubs were an impressively awful 31-51. While pretty much everything that could have gone wrong in those three months did go wrong, in my eyes there are a few major areas that were greatly responsible for the early death of the 2011 Cubs.
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