2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 55

I can’t take credit for this quote that I read on Twitter this afternoon, but it essentially said that only the Cubs could make us feel bad about taking two out of three from the best team in baseball (to date). To that end, let’s start by being overjoyed that the Cubs had a great series against a very strong team. They reminded us that as bad as they’ve been the last month or so, they can still be pretty good too.

That said, it was hard not to be a bit distracted by the early exit of Justin Steele. No one can breathe completely easy with possibly the best player on the team exiting with a forearm issue. There are a lot of bad things that could be, but we’ll hope that Steele himself was…