And now with the one-liners, because, come on, they're just sittin' there:
So what's next? The Cubs dig up Harry and send him back to the White Sox for a dead guy to be named later?
The Cubs tried to trade their mascot, Clark the Bear, to the Bears, but the deal fell through when the Bears insisted he put on pants.
Cubs: "OK, who wants the scoreboard?"
"Love what you're doing!" -- Bob Nutting, owner, Pittsburgh Cruds.
"Woo-hoo! Now's our chance to get out of last place!" -- The Cruds.
"Hahahaha, just kidding." -- Also the Cruds.
Although now that Jed Hoyer has stripped the Cubs for parts ...
Goodness. What a couple of days on the north side.
Rizzo, gone. Bryant, gone. Baez, gone. Kimbrel, gone.
Season, surrendered.
Not, of course, that the Cubs were going anywhere this summer anyway. Thursday and Friday were, after all, merely the second stage of a fire sale that's been going on all through the current trade season; during it the Cubs have offloaded a total of nine players, including the aforementioned and also relievers Andrew Chafin and Ryan Tepera and starting pitcher Trevor Williams.
I guess if you're gonna do a rebuild, you do a rebuild.
But if it was time, five years after winning the World Series, shedding all your marquee names from 2016 is still a grim business. There is no joy in Wrigleyville today, because what's essentially been over for a couple of years now -- the glory days -- are now officially over. A page everyone was understandably reluctant to turn has been turned.
And now?
Hard to say. As long as my Cruds are around, the Cubs, even if they go back to being the Cubs, are never going to finish last. So at least there's that.
As for the rest ...
Well. You'd like to think, if you're a Cubs fan, there won't be another 108-year dry spell. But, you know, it's the Cubs, so who knows.
In the meantime, an FYI about your "W" flag:
The Cubs just traded it.
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