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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Steve Greenberg

Go, Cubs, Go? Or No, Cubs, No? Let’s see if this team can avoid a season-ending collapse

Dansby Swanson got the Cubs going Tuesday with a first-inning home run. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

It might be . . . it could be . . . it isn’t?

For eight weeks, the Cubs played like a team that belonged in the postseason. As recently as the first week of September, they seemed almost like shoo-ins. The predictive models loved their chances. Those of us who are blissfully dim-witted enough not to even begin to understand what goes into those predictive models loved their chances, too.

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