I've never posted a diary but figured this might be a worthy topic to discuss since things have been slowing here a bit with the end of the winter meetings.
I've heard a really wide variety of reactions to this Cubs off-season and I wanted to get a feel for what people's expectation of the off-season was and what they view as a successful off-season because I think there's confusion amongst us due to our differing expectations.
So let's take a look at 10 general scenarios in how the off-season could've played out and let me know which matches up most with where you feel we ended up and which matches up most with what you were hoping for coming into the off-season?
- We have improved over last season and not sacrificed our chances for being competetive in the future
- We have improved over last season
- We have improved to the point where we'll likely be above .500 and not sacrificed our chances for being competetive in the future
- We have improved to the point where we'll likely be above .500
- We have improved to the point where we're a legitimate Division contender and not sacrificed our chances for being competetive in the future
- We have improved to the point where we're a legitimate Division contender
- We have improved to the point where we're one of the top NL contenders and not sacrificed our chances for being competetive in the future
- We have improved to the point where we're one of the top NL contenders
- We have improved the point where we're a world series contender and not sacrificed our chances for being competetive in the future
- We have improved the point where we're a world series contender
Anyways, thought this might be a good way to understand each other's viewpoints of the off-season as well as our expectations or hopes for the off-season coming in.
Obviously the off-season isn't over so there's plenty of time for things to change.