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Game 1 Recap: Cubs 9 Angels 0

This was fun. Let’s get to it. Top Play (WPA): “When you go, we go.” That’s what manager Joe Maddon said to Dexter Fowler before every one of his at-bats during the 2015 season, and it is (presumably) what he said to him today, shortly before Fowler began the Cubs’ 2016 campaign with a sharp double down the […]

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Hope on a Chicago Morning

Hope. Hope upon hope. Hope met, ever-so-recently, with a reality that just might be able to justify it. Hope that springs out of a century of nearly unremitting despair, punctuated by brief moments of brilliance and a deep, abiding love. Love of a city, rising high above the heart of the country, that draws in the great […]