Just Sayin’: It’s put-up-or-shut-up time for Cubs

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The 2016 Cubs celebrate on the mound in San Francisco.It was late. Deadline was bearing down. The Cubs and Giants were still playing Game 4 of their 2016 division series, but everyone in the press box at then-named AT&T Park in San Francisco was already writing.

About a series the Giants were about to knot up before the teams traveled to Wrigley Field for a decisive Game 5, we reckoned.

The Cubs trailed 5-2 heading into the ninth inning. Like other writers there that night, I was a good chunk of the way through a “Cubs lose” story. Blessed with the organizational skills of a baby platypus, I somehow still have that file on my desktop. (Will I remember to…