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Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2023 season

I’m thinking about a baseball team.

It had been a while since this team had won a World Series, and though they had made a few postseason appearances since, they’d fallen short of repeating as winners of that championship.

They had a number of homegrown stars who eventually did help them win that elusive World Series title, but over time, the team grew stale and many of those stars stopped producing and were traded away or departed as free agents.

In the offseason, they signed a starting pitcher who had been decent enough, but not an ace, and an outfielder who had question marks all over him.