Baseball, Man, Sometimes it Sucks…And That’s Pretty Okay

Baseball is stupid.

Three pitches into the game, the Cubs held a 59% win expectancy. Three hours and 46 minutes later, right around 2:35 am ET, that expectation had been ratcheted up to 75.4% as Aroldis Chapman readied to face Ryan Raburn with one out and one on. Then the possibilities dropped to nil and I sank mercifully into my GhostBed.

You’re not supposed to lose when you hit a leadoff home run, so I felt pretty good when Dexter Fowler took Tyler Anderson deep to put the Cubs up early. Then the Rockies’ David Dahl hit a routine fly to short that carried out and over the fence in left center and I had to revise my optimism. The Cubs tacked on a few more, Addison Russell mashed a homer, and…