COLUMN: With little more than a month remaining in baseball season, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities. A contending Sox team is being booed, while a Cubs team that’s been out of contention since April is feeding optimism.
With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox somehow have managed to switch identities.
La Russa added they also chanted “Let’s go, Sox,” which he considered an “amazing” display of optimism.Meanwhile, a Cubs team that has been out of contention since April is feeding optimism on the North Side, where seldom a discouraging word has been heard of late from the paying customers at Wrigley Field. Like the days of old, selling hope is Job No. 1,“I’m thrilled we’re playing this way,” Cubs President Jed Hoyer said Thursday. “A lot of parts of the season were really frustrating.
The hoped-for Summer of Joy has turned into the Summer of Oy for the struggling Sox, who fell back to .500 Friday. They entered Saturday trailing the first-place Cleveland Guardians by four games in the American League Central and have a 20.7% chance to make the postseason, according to baseball-reference.com.
In this bizarro season, La Russa’s counterpart on the Cubs seemingly is made of Teflon, deflecting any criticism for the team’s record thanks to the premise he hasn’t been given the talent to compete. David Ross, aka “Rossy,” even got away with, a move that would’ve created a Twitterstorm had La Russa been caught doing the same. Instead, it was just “Bad Grandpa” having some fun.
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