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What is Really Wrong with the Champion Chicago Cubs?

Chicago Cubs fans know angst.

Even after watching their team end the most infamous title drought in professional sports, the North Side faithful have deep reserves of nervous discontent. They buried the damn billy goat, but he could come bleating back like the killer in a bad slasher flick.

OK, that's over-dramatic. Here's a fact, though: Slightly more than one-fifth of the way into the 2017 MLB season, the Cubs sit at 18-19.

A team that won 103 games and hoisted a commissioner's trophy in 2016 is under .500 and looking up at the rebuilding Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds, not to mention the arch-rival St.