But last year was a specific case of us having an aging and injured rotation with no depth, which didn't allow us to ever pile up wins, until we traded for Quintana and also got healthy. There was also probably some hangover effect going on there, but whatever. We just weren't a very good team with who we were trotting onto the field in the first half. This was just a case of us not playing well and having a bad series. Unless every single bad game is now going to be some similitude of the 2017 first-half Cubs, then I don't see why it's pertinent. i wasn't trying to assign any kind of meaning to it, it was just an annoying/flukey/dumb series in the same ways as early last year. i was bemoaning the cosmos, not the cobs.