I am going to tell you all about — or, well, some of the things about — the Cubs’ 6-0 loss to the Cardinals Saturday night, but first, a joke! (Thanks go to Mike Bojanowski, who told me this joke as the late innings of Saturday’s game droned on.)
A man walks down the street one night and passes a house which local lore has long held to be haunted, though the man has never noticed anything unusual.
But on this particular night, a thin, piping voice emanates from behind the front door, plaintively repeating a single word:
“Thirteen .