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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Steve Greenberg

July is supposed to be a sports snoozer, but not this year in Chicago — it’s wild and weird

Catcher Willson Contreras is the Cubs’ best player — but probably not for long. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

The problem with July is, well, it stinks. For sports, that is. We’d invite you to try to name a worse month on the U.S. sports calendar, but we already know you can’t. There’s baseball, plus a little of this, maybe some of that and, hang on, did we mention baseball? Google “worst month on the U.S. sports calendar,” and you’ll find July dismissed here and there as “the least exciting month,” “the most uneventful month by a country mile” and “your chance to take a break from sports and recharge.”

July stinks, is the point.

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