2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 66

Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesMy thoughts on modern extra inning baseball are well known. I won’t belabor that. The Cubs are 3-4 in extra innings. In what is a coin flip game (more or less regardless of talent level), that’s not awful. But, there aren’t a lot of splits in which the Cubs have a negative expectation. They are also 4-5 on turf. Anyone remember when, for a short time, there were a lot of teams playing on turf?

It’s something when the final feels simultaneously like the right result for the other team and mildly disappointing. I don’t know that it’s true, but I felt that if Dansby Swanson had gotten the run home from third with one out in the 11th that…