Paul Sullivan: Ecstasy or heartbreak? A roller-coaster Chicago Cubs season has reached the fork in the road.
It all comes down to the final week for the Chicago Cubs, a team that has toyed with its fans emotions from opening day. Six road games against two playoff-bound teams, the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers, to decide whether the Cubs are October-worthy. For anxiety-ridden Cubs fans who’ve followed their team from Day 1, the obstacles to the postseason party couldn’t be more pronounced. One ...
It all comes down to the final week for the Chicago Cubs, a team that has toyed with its fans emotions from opening day.
Six road games against two playoff-bound teams, the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers, to decide whether the Cubs are October-worthy.
For anxiety-ridden Cubs fans who’ve followed their team from Day 1, the obstacles to the postseason party couldn’t be more pronounced. One is the best team in baseball, with a lineup ESPN speculated could be the greatest of all time. The Cubs are not of the Braves’ “caliber,” some might say, but they did beat the Braves in two of three games at Wrigley Field in early August.
The other is the
