I had a late lunch with my friend Stuart at Spanky's Roadhouse - just to the west of the University of Denver campus - yesterday afternoon, where we discussed the predictions being made about the upcoming baseball season. As regular blog readers know, Stuart is originally from the North Side of Chicago, which of course means he is a Cubs fan, while I myself grew up in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side, and am a lifelong White Sox fan. Last year the Sox were predicted to win their division, but wound up barely playing .500 baseball. And the Cubs were as horrible as predicted. This year, the Sox have lost all-star first baseman Jose Abreu to free agency, and Liam Hendricks, their ace closer, to a serious illness. The experts predict they will struggle to even get to .500 this year. The Cubs, on the other hand, who began a rebuilding program last year, wound up signing three top free agents during the off-season, including Cody Bellinger from the Dodgers. I asked Stuart, seen in the photograph on the left, if he was excited about the Cubs' prospects this year, and he replied that Cub fans have been excited about the team's prospects since 1962. Sounds like a big no to me.
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