It was sometime during Saturday morning’s pregame media session that Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell facetiously cut off questions about Wisconsin.

He’d been asked about the Milwaukee Brewers’ 13-game winning streak, their jovial manager, Pat Murphy, and the divisional race the Brewers are now running away with after the Cubs spent the first four months in first place. The way things were headed, Counsell might have feared answering questions about the Mars Cheese Castle, the Green Bay Packers receiving corps and his favorite lunch spot at the Wisconsin Dells.

“What did you expect?” I asked him.

The Wisconsin native who left his job in Milwaukee for the bright lights of Chicago has watched his former team turn into baseball’s best story, while the Cubs were doing Cub-like thin

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