David Haugh: Cubs look closer to being dismantled in the offseason than they are to playing in the World Series
by David Haugh, Chicago Tribune
Aug 26, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Urgency enveloped spring training for the Cubs, especially after team president Theo Epstein's edict that "October really starts in March."
Epstein's urgent plea helped prod the Cubs to first place and a 31-24 record through May. What followed was a middling summer that produced as many questions as answers.
The conundrum continued last weekend after a soul-crushing sweep by the Nationals. Getting swept at Wrigley Field in late August suggested the all-too-comfortable Cubs felt all the urgency of a window-shopper on
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