This year's version of the Cubs is much more believable as a contender
<p><i>“No one performs an experiment once and considers the work done. They repeat it with different variables, correcting what they thought they knew, adding what they’ve learned.” </i></p><p>— from “The School of Life” by Amy Maclin as it appeared in O Daily Magazine</p><p>At some point this season — maybe it was during their first 10-game winning streak in late April, maybe it was during their second, maybe at some point during the 10-game losing streak that followed in late May, maybe they’re in the midst of it right now during their 8-2 run since the Dodgers series in which they’ve been playing some of their best and most meaningful baseball all season — the Cubs fell into a sense of belief in themselves.</p><p>As if they had found, to some unexpected degree, a deeper purpose.</p><p>We’ll never know.
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<p><i>“No one performs an experiment once and considers the work done. They repeat it with different variables, correcting what they thought they knew, adding what they’ve learned.” </i></p><p>— from “The School of Life” by Amy Maclin as it appeared in O Daily Magazine</p><p>At some point this season — maybe it was during their first 10-game winning streak in late April, maybe it was during their second, maybe at some point during the 10-game losing streak that followed in late May, maybe they’re in the midst of it right now during their 8-2 run since the Dodgers series in which they’ve been playing some of their best and most meaningful baseball all season — the Cubs fell into a sense of belief in themselves.</p><p>As if they had found, to some unexpected degree, a deeper purpose.</p><p>We’ll never know. They’ll never outwardly say. At least not until they win it all or once it ends.
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- <p><i>“No one performs an experiment once and considers the work done. They repeat it with different variables, correcting what they thought they knew, adding what they’ve learned.” </i></p><p>— from “The School of Life” by Amy Maclin as it appeared in O Daily Magazine</p><p>At some point this season — maybe it was during their first 10-game winning streak in late April, maybe it was during their second, maybe at some point during the 10-game losing streak that followed in late May, maybe they’re in the midst of it right now during their 8-2 run since the Dodgers series in which they’ve been playing some of their best and most meaningful baseball all season — the Cubs fell into a sense of belief in themselves.</p><p>As if they had found, to some unexpected degree, a deeper purpose.</p><p>We’ll never know.
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This year's version of the Cubs is much more believable as a contender
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