Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras’s audition for the New York Mets begins Thursday night at Wrigley Field, just as the White Sox arrive at a fork in the road in Minneapolis.
This final weekend before the All-Star break figures to be a most interesting one for the Cubs and Sox, two teams that have tried the patience of their most patient fans.
The Sox have failed to live up to the high expectations that greeted the season, slogging around the .500 mark in the first half while manager Tony La Russa takes a beating on the postgame show. The Cubs haven’t even met the extremely low expectations most fans had for them in April and are likely to trade the popular Contreras to the highest bidder, possibly even to the hated Mets.
