Dallas Keuchel is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He will be part of a great rotation in Houston next season along with Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole. For whatever reason yesterday, Keuchel took a shot at the Chicago Cubs, and as a noted Cubs hater, I absolutely love it and him. City of Milwaukee might announce their giving him the key to the city this summer. Keuchel called out the Cubs for having a ‘World Series hangover’, and that Houston will not be ‘like the Cubs’. That’s fantastic. We don’t hear enough trash talk in baseball. If MLB wants to come back into America’s hearts, take a page from the NBA and be the most dramatic shit going in the summertime.

Is there any truth to what Keuchel is saying? I think so. It’s not just because I dislike the Cubs and hope the worst for them. Rather, they heard all winter and spring long from fans all over the country how much this World Series meant to them. The parties and the lavish offerings were a plenty to Chicago. The World Series meant more to the Cubs than it did Houston from a city perspective. Yes, Houston had the awful hurricanes, and it rallied the city together in that sense, yet, the City of Houston won championships before with the Rockets. I’m not sure where you put the Texans, Astros and Rockets in terms of fandom, but the Cubs outrank that in the City of Chicago. It’s natural that a hangover would exist.

Once again, a tip of the cap to Mr. Keuchel from his friends in Milwaukee.