2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 42

Photo by Nick Loggarakis/MLB Photos via Getty Images I’m not in the mood for counting any chickens today. But, for one day, this team took care of business and kept all of the demons at bay. I don’t know any more than any of the rest of you if this team will emerge from the 41 games from hell and get hot. I suspect they will. Certainly, the Cardinals have emerged the last week and a half as the hottest team in baseball. I believe the schedule will even itself out and I like the odds for the Cubs. But one doesn’t know.

On Monday night, the Cubs arrived home. The old baseball adage is the next night’s starting pitcher. Some have also said it that it’s the next night’s starting pitching…