David Haugh: After nerve-wracking season, Cubs should make other playoff teams nervous
by By David Haugh, Chicago Tribune
Sep 27, 2017
3 minutes
Champagne stayed on ice and T-shirts remained in boxes Wednesday night in St. Louis until the very last out of the Cubs' National League Central-clinching victory over the Cardinals. But inevitability arrived months ago, anticipation forming as soon as they cleaned the confetti off Michigan Avenue.
As Eamus Catuli reset to zero in November, a sense of fait accompli accompanied every playoff discussion about the Cubs since, so much so that you wondered whether winning a division title would produce a celebration or a shrug. The sense that the Cubs
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