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Thursday notes…

Wednesday night, Cubs left fielder Ian Happ recorded his 1,000th career hit, a double leading off the bottom of the fourth.

Here’s the hit and the crowd reaction [VIDEO].

Boy, I wish that one wasn’t so eminently foreseeable. The Cubs have basically had no games this year where a starter had a small lead when he left and then the bullpen just passed the torch through the end of the game. That’s usually a pretty standard “shape” for a game. You might blow one occasionally. You might pile on in the late stages sometimes. But in the era o...

I thought about it again, yes I did.

What’s that, you’re asking?

I thought about just posting the final score of this game as a one-line recap.

“The Cubs lost to the Athletics 5-4 in 10 innings,” the one line woul...