Here at CUB TRACKS NEWS AND NOTES™, we have news for you, four days a week. Today I survived a beheading, er, a lipectomy, a removal of some fatty tissue from my neck and shoulders.
“Lipoma?” she said, laughing. “I didn’t know you graduated.” She always leaves me in stitches. I mean to say that she toasts my ravioli.
Welcome to October, Ichabod. In October 2021, the Cubs commenced the last series of the season, against the stinkin’ playoff-bound Cardinals, in boring old St. Louis, and fielded a lineup that nobody would have imagined in April, fresh off of a meatloafing of the Pittsburgh Pirates, with a battery of Abbott and Castillo, as the Cubs are getting a last look at as many guys as they can with an eye toward patching together the 2022 roster and containing what looks like an in-house COVID spike.