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RSS FeedsWrigley changed, but Blue Jays´ challenge remains the same: Griffin
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18 august 2017 03:07:29

 
Wrigley changed, but Blue Jays´ challenge remains the same: Griffin
(The Star Travel)
 


CHICAGO—The results of this weekend’s three-game series against the Cubs at Wrigley Field will not make or break the Blue Jays’ chances of remaining a peripheral wild-card hopeful into September. However in facing the World Series champs, the results — good or bad — will surely have an effect on the Jays’ collective psyche.The Cubs are reigning champions and though they are struggling to repeat, there is a certain aura about meeting the champs in their own building. Recall the seven games the Jays have played against the class of the American League this year, the Houston Astros. Despite scrambling and scraping to a 3-4 record, the Jays were outscored 63-34 in the seven games, spanked soundly three times and looking outclassed.The Cubs’ pitching matchups and the intimidating Wrigley experience are hinting at a mismatch in favour of the home team. Jake Arrieta, Jose Quintana and Kyle Hendricks against J.A. Happ, Nick Tepesch and Marco Estrada. Read more:Donaldson, Blue Jays cap homestand with win over RaysAmerican poet laureate Carl Sandburg labelled it “the city of the big shoulders,” and for 108 years the biggest burden this great city had to bear on its shoulders was that, despite the most loyal fan base in North American sports, the beloved MLB team on the North Side of town had been without a World Series win since 1908. Blame day games, blame the goat, blame Bartman. At last, the Cubs became World Series champs. But success has changed perception.Cubs fans used to be fatalistically lovable losers: playing nothing but day baseball at Wrigley Field, cheering for Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Hack Wilson, Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg and others. The late hall of fame broadcaster Harry Caray would lead the fans in a heartfelt “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” for every seventh-inning stretch. With Caray long gone, celebrity guests now lead the seventh-inning singalong, while usually trying ...


 
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