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Paul Sullivan: Cubs' bullpen can't stop dancing: 'What should we do? Just sit there?'

If the idea is to dance like nobody's watching, the Cubs' relief corps has it down.

Throughout the 2017 season, in their cavernous room underneath the left field bleachers of Wrigley Field, they've jerked and twerked, shimmed and shook, and generally made fools of themselves under the guise of dancing.

And now they can't stop.

The bullpen dancing shifted into a higher gear after a recent dance-off with the Diamondbacks during a rain delay went viral.

The Diamondbacks' relievers pulled off a pantomime bobsledding routine that was synchronized to a T. One of them even pretended he was a bowling ball while his teammates were bowling pins. And another wore his uniform upside-down.

Basically they hijacked the

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