Chicago Cubs: Suspension provides opportunity for Marquee

The Chicago Cubs and Comcast SportsNet had a good relationship for a while. That ruffled the feathers of some fans

For years, Chicago Cubs baseball was associated with a longstanding partnership with WGN and, eventually, Comcast SportsNet. Before the suspension of play due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, Cubs baseball was set to have a new home: the Marquee Sports Network.

But rather than seeing the new network as something fresh and exciting, Chicago Cubs fans had disdain for the changes, and with good reason.

Cubs brass had mostly failed to ink significant cable deals with providers even at the beginning of spring training, forcing numerous fans (even at a local level) to either find…