People love to cram their sports into narratives. "The Cubs are rebuilding and young so they have to go step by step in the process" is an easy narrative to understand. Actually analyzing baseball teams is hard and complicated.
Yeah, I'm gonna spend 10 minute explaining ZIPS projections to my friends and family just so they can go "Yeah, but it's still the Cubs. Haha, June Swoon black cat goat haha." Talking baseball IRL is the worst thing in history. It is the Schlitter of conversations.
If Billy Beane doesn't wake up one morning and decide he's willing to trade a guy normally untouchable, then none of the other 28 GMs were going to give you anything close to that.
Maddon with the amazing Schlitter Gambit, in which he gives away an easy win in order to make the comeback more emotionally devastating to a key division rival.
Remember when I was all like "replay is annoying and never works so let's not have it" and everyone was like "SHUT UP KYLE REPLAY IS GREAT BECAUSE THEY WILL GET THE CALLS RIGHT."