2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty ImagesWelcome back, baseball, my old friend. As long-suffering Cubs fans, we know that this can be a very fickle friend. That was definitely the case in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. For one of the rare times where baseball is concerned, I really appreciated my move to the east coast. This game started at 6:10 a.m. ET, which doesn’t seem nearly as brutal as it must have been for the overwhelming majority of you in the Midwest. I don’t even want to think of poor Josh and our West coast faithful. Was it easier to just stay up than to try to get up at 3 in the morning?

An early wake up call (and the inevitable 3 a.m. wake up thinking I’d slept through my alarm)…