Does Kyle Hendricks miss the way things used to be with the Cubs?
Does he ever get sad thinking about all those good teams and great teammates far — and forever — gone?
Cue an image of “the Professor” crying in a $12 Wrigley Field beer.
“Yeah,” he said. “I get sad sometimes. But I think it’s natural.”
Hendricks has had a lot of time to think since last season’s trade deadline, when he — like Cubs fans everywhere — was left numb by the sudden, if expected, departures of Anthony Rizzo, Javy Baez and Kris Bryant, among others.