2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 80

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesYour mileage may vary. For me though, this has become one of the more boring Cubs seasons in memory. To be sure, this isn’t even the worst Cubs team in recent memory. I’m fairly certain this team would win a vast majority of its games against the post-2021 selloff carnage of the Ortega/Schwindel/Wisdom Cubs. But getting past the trauma that was all of those trades, I found that season oddly entertaining.

I think the last time I was this tuned out on a Cubs team was 1997 when the team started out with 14 consecutive losses. To be fair, in 2012 when the team last lost 100+ games, I was in the middle of a several-year period of ignoring the big league…