Sports Preview: Chicago Cubs
What strengths and weaknesses can you expect this season? We’ve got you covered!
Strengths:
- Fans will be able to attend home games without fear of getting stabbed
- 85% of players have yet to try Chicago deli sandwiches named after them
- Just competitive enough to ward off fears of Frank Thomas’ zombie
- Influx of talented young players provides fans the opportunity to finally replace their mothball-ridden Greg Maddux original.
- Most of roster can name at least five of organization’s current farm system players (probably)
- Most exciting season to date for millennial Cub fans who started following the team in 2014
- Front office whiz Theo Epstein, the first Cubs executive to employ the radical theory of drafting talented players in an effort to win
- Capable of turning routine double plays into slightly more difficult routine double
Weaknesses:
- Will continue to attempt to legitimize Iowa as a state through Triple A team
- Wrigley Field construction not scheduled for completion until 2057
- Don’t hit home runs, sometimes
- Classy professionalism of management making it hard for Bulls organization to identify with them
- Bartman still lurks in the woodwork, waiting to strike again
Advice to fans:
Get ready for another 108 years!
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