It was the first time since 1932 that the Cubs did not play on a Sunday.
It was more important that the Lakeview Pride Parade take center stage on Sunday than a Cubs-Nationals game.
The Cubs played a day-night doubleheader, meaning the park was cleared for a separate gate for the nigh contest. The Cubs were rewarded for their day off by first losing both games on Saturday.
It was said that there really was no good reason why the Cubs could not play on Sunday. The Cubs gate would be under 30,000. The parade was going to start more than an hour before typical game time. The Cubs could have moved the start time back to 2:20 p.m. if there truly was a traffic concern.
But the decision was made not to play ball.
Then an interesting thing happened: no one noticed that the Cubs did not play yesterday.
The Cubs totally fell off the radar.
The Sunday Cubs used to be a staple program on WGN America, but now that channel has dropped the Cubs from any future national exposure. So the Cubs will further fall off the radar of many non-local Cubs fans.
One could imagine that in the middle of the depression, people could not afford to go to a Cub game. But this is 2014. We are in the final golden years of the Bud Selig leadership era. Baseball has never been better (except on the North Side.)
It is depressing that the Cubs are getting more and more irrelevant.
