These guys ain't so f-ing bad

The Cubs handled a Dodgers team not yet fully formed, yet still formidable

These guys ain't so f-ing bad

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The Dodgers were in town over the weekend, and the Cubs acquitted themselves quite nicely against that presumed juggernaut. Then again, it’s April, so it doesn’t mean all that much.

Many Cubs fans seem to be of the opinion that the Dodgers are evil and their free agency spending spree is bad for the game. Those fans are idiots. There’s nothing wrong with spending money to acquire talent. Just because the Cubs half-ass it, doesn’t make their approach the sensible one. Even Shohei Ohtani got booed at times on Friday. I assume it was because he eschewed the Cubs “here’s a big offer that we really hope you turn down because we want people to know we were after you but we do not want to pay you” proposal, and signed with the Dodgers for $700 million. Then again, some fans might have booed him for the gambling scandal he’s either directly or indirectly involved in. And I hope most of those fans had just staggered out of the DraftKings Sportsbook at Wrigley Field. (That’s literally it’s official name.)

The Cubs won two of the three games and scored nine and eight runs in the two wins. In the loss they had the bases loaded in the first and second and came away with nothing. Once those chances to get to Yoshinobu Yamamoto were wasted he settled in and breezed through the third, fourth and fifth. He’s really impressive. He’s almost as good as the new guy the Cubs have.