This may come as a shock to some of you, but the Cubs aren’t exactly considered lovable outside the friendly confines of their own fanbase. I mean, geez, they’re even making it hard for many of their loyal followers to embrace them these days. That isn’t so much the case at Cubs Convention, where most of the 8,000 attendees are there to gleefully consume everything they can related to the team.
That of course includes the players, many of whom are involved in public panels in addition to various autograph sessions and meet-and-greet opportunities. As you might imagine, the responses to fans’ questions during those panels will naturally skew toward the positive and are laden with more than a little bias.