The puppies return to Wrigley Field and give their fans a little hope for the home

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CHICAGO – Looking down the fans’ crush stood in the atrium of Wrigley Field before the opening of the house on Friday, I thought, you know what, the puppies could simply “break” this season.

Looking like the Cubs beat the San Diego Padas in a 3-1 victory, they could do better than breaking too … on the field. After two seasons of 83 wins and a too long playoff drought, the CUBS seem quite good to win 90 games, draw 3 million fans and win the NL Central.

Now, the Cubs have not attracted 3 million fans to Wrigley Field since 2019, the year everything has gone to pieces. They have not won 90 games since 2018, when they suffocated the stretch and lost a game at home Jolly. They did not win the NL Central (in an entire season) since 2017, which is the last time they won a series of playoffs.

As for the old saw on the win of the World Series … in this economy? No, forget it. The objectives are modest and achievable in 2025.

This means that the president of the Tom Ricketts puppies, he more Extravagant quote from the offseasonHe can close his guitar case open to the Addison stop. There is no need to sing the blues for suggestions. Not with puppies that have some modest hope of selling tickets from $ 90, $ 15 and hot dog beers of $ 9. (Restketts will be well regardless. Only CUBS fans will go in ruins trying to afford a day in the park.)

After a beginning of Chiscottes for the season that saw the Cubs go to Japan, return to spring training, open the season a second time in Arizona and then travel to Sacramento, they finally returned home.

“It looks like a journey to get here, right?” Cubs Craig Counsell manager said. “And it was.”

Wrigley Field has been attacked by fans for his home opening. (Jon Greenberg / Atletico)

The taverns were full of packs before the game while the programs producers gave a gift to Wrigleyville with a start of Friday afternoon. The hot bars and cold beers are always a winning combination when 45 degrees and cloudy on the north side.

Wrigley Field and Sunshine bring a couple of millions of fans, it doesn’t matter how the team is going, but a winning Cubs team fills the bars and sells the stadium when it’s cold outside. This is how it becomes one of the first three teams that produce entrances in baseball, if not one of the best spreads.

My colleagues concerned real concerns about the lack of high -level CUBS expenses on Friday. The team has put itself in this embarrassing position from its obvious autooty budget restrictions. That’s why fans are already worrying that the puppies do not sign Kyle Tucker, a stars who has just played his first game at Wrigley Field.

Fans of the real puppies, the type they swear on the Bullpen in December, were frustrated for months by the contrasting signals from the team. The team markets for Tucker, who transforms the free agent into this offseason, but does not make other significant investments in the team. Ricketts shades people – at the team’s fans convention, no less – who think they should spend like the New York and Los Angeles teams. (Since then he has not talks to journalists, jumping his usual spring training press conference, even if he has made an interview on the CNBC.) The CUBS increase prices and lower the baseball budget. It would be a head scratch if it weren’t so planned.

But while fans can complain and the media can point their fingers, for puppies, it is time to produce. They may not have a team capable of beating Dodgers in a series of seven games, but they should be able to survive beer producers, cardinals and the rest of the division.

“We are certainly a better team than we were last year, both on paper and in reality,” said Cubs President Jed Hoyer at his press conference of the pre – -match opening day. “Obviously, now it’s about going out and playing. I think the offseason is to talk about the team on paper and the season is to go out and do it. So now we have to go out and do it.”

Before his 5th Inning AT-Bat, Justin Turner approached the song “Danger Zone” -Popular from the film “Top Gun”, to honor the deceased Val Kilmer ❤️ pic.twitter.com/12Prchj99xu

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This is what they did on Friday. Nobody spoke of Crane Kenney’s legendary money laden, Ricketts’ empty wallet, Hoyer’s future or where Tucker will play next year.

While the song goes, the baseball season was in progress. Right here, in the present.

A crowd of 40,244 exulted for the Cubs Shōta IMANAGA ace while crossing mainly the San Diego range and whistled Counsell when he pulled his appetizer out with one in the eighth inning. The nails have bitten when this year has closer, Ryan launched the ninth. They crogified in the CUBS flyers by exploiting the rough launch Padres.

What does old Earl Weaver say: launch, defense and homer to three shots? The CUBS have obtained it, but replace “Homer with three shots” with “Walk full of bases, Single Infield and Fielder’s Choice”, because that’s how they scored all their races. They were unable to collect an extra-base blow (the Padres had three) and went 1 in 5 with the runners in a score position. In most days, this will burn you. But on Friday, their bustle on the bases helped them score enough races.

In the end, he pressly obtained a game game called Strike with the runners to the second and third, played Steve Goodman and raised a W flag for people on the L. Everyone returned home and happy. Just like drawing it.

You know, Cubs fans, together, get a bad rap. Of course, the park draws dozens of tourists and Gofballs drunk from April to September, but hard-core baseball enthusiasts are preparing the park and hanging on each syllable enunciated by Pat Hughes. Those are the people who deserve a winner every year. And maybe this Cubs team will give them one.