Good day, and happy holidays to all of our Cubs Insider readers. I know the Dodgers are doing their best Scrooge job on the rest of baseball, but that doesn’t mean we must stop enjoying the national pastime. Contrarily, we should embrace it. Nothing will be better than beating the Cardinals, Brewers, Mets, and those hated barnstormers from Los Angeles. Andrew Friedman has made this a December to remember by going on a billion-dollar spending spree.
In Chicago, Jed Hoyer is squeezing nickels so tight they’ll eventually melt. I can’t say that I blame him.