You’d think it’d be pretty easy to put together a list of the top moments from the bygone season. After all, a campaign during which the Cubs put up 97 wins and reached the NLCS on the strength of Cy Young and the Rookie and Manager of the Year is bound to produce a high point or fifty. But as I sat here trying to channel my reminiscence, I found myself engaged in veritable Whack-A-Mole of anamnesis.
No sooner had my sluggish synaptic firings pushed a memory mole to the surface than I’d swing, only to see it disappear.