The dishes are now in the middle of a consecutive weekends in which they will play cubs, yankees and dodgers.
And if it is a decisive test of nine games against the other powers of the major market which will lead the dishes at the Memorial Day – the traditional opening of the pennant race – then that could not have been better. The Cubs arrived at Citi Field Friday, a bit like the host, after having used the start of the season to take a division and bending advance that they could be more than that.
Then, the dishes upgraded them in all possible ways, starting with the baseball version of the irresistible force encountering an inhumable object. The Cubs led the majors in racing per game, the food at the time.
It was not close.
