Piling World Series Expectations onto Youthful Chicago Cubs Is a Mistake

When you are the Chicago Cubs, maybe the most cursed, endearing and followed team in Major League Baseball, there is no hiding. When you are this popular and have lost this ugly for this long, you cannot duck great hope.

And while most would try, the Cubs do not. The expectations are welcomed by a franchise that has not won a World Series since 1908 and more recently finished fifth in the National League Central five consecutive times.

It is also a franchise relying heavily on players in their early 20s who have never de...

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