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David Haugh: Swagger ensures the Cubs won't stagger

The longer Ben Zobrist argued with umpire Phil Cuzzi the other day, the more entitled the Cubs appeared.

Zobrist, after all, had been called out on strikes two innings before he brought it up again yet felt compelled to plead his case and finally earned Cuzzi's ejection with a crack about an electronic strike zone.

Zobrist's argument left the same impression as Anthony Rizzo's extended conversation with umpire Angel Hernandez that created a similar stir days earlier: The Cubs never believe they're wrong.

That's when it dawned on me: Whether it involves players arguing with umps longer than they

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