The Shohei Ohtani deal certainly shocked all of baseball and seems to have turned the game’s greatest player into its greatest villain, but life does and must continue. The Cubs and 28 other teams never really had a chance, though in the spirit of “one on the hook and one on the line,” Blue Jays fans have the right to feel as burnt as an Arkansas griddlecake. Apologies to Terry Bradshaw for the metaphor.
Jed Hoyer has some work to do, and Cubs fans can only hope he has been planning for this contingency all along.