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It’s fair to say that the Cubs are not currently in their fans’ good graces. The team probably has surveys and pie charts to tell me I’m wrong, but all the emails and social-media posts I’ve seen seem to suggest that, if the franchise’s decision-makers were to suddenly lose engine power during a trans-Atlantic yacht trip, it would be quite OK with Cubs fans. As would the yacht’s radio system failing.
There are various reasons for the ill will. The dynasty that was predicted after the team won the 2016 World Series never materialized. The Cubs didn’t spend money on free agents last offseason and appear on the way to considering a competitive “timeout’’ down the road. They traded ace Yu Darvish in a luxury tax salary dump this offseason, a terrible betrayal by a major-market franchise. Team president Theo Epstein, who guided the organization through a painful rebuild to a championship, walked away this offseason. The team parted company with popular
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