Deadspin gets it right for once on the Cubs:
The Cubs aren't, and never have been, the little guy. Not in Major League Baseball, and not even in their own town. They're a big, strong, abundantly advantaged organization, blessed with avenues to success that genuinely burdened organizations like the friggin' Tampa Bay Rays will never have. The Cubs print money, then sell a hardscrabble image with no basis in reality. (Just as a near-term example, they were able to sink monster money into Jason Heyward, have him turn out to be completely dreadful, and still won’t have to sweat it even when all their talented kids start getting paid what they deserve.)
The reason the Cubs are not the Yankees of the National League is not that they can't be or have been too honorable or sweet-natured for it; it's that they’ve sucked at trying. They’re the Yankees, minus competence.
The sun has not shined on a dog's ass. The sun has shined on an extremely rich ballclub that spent a century pretending to be a dog's ass to excuse the smell.
http://deadspin.com/the-cubs-dont-ha...nym-1788534327