In an effort to break one of the longest title droughts in professional sports, the Chicago Cubs have gone where no rational team has contemplated going before: mimes.
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With less than two weeks until MLB’s Opening Day, Cubs manager Joe Madden organised for two mimes to lead the warm-up routine on Wednesday.
#Cubs pic.twitter.com/O9iAYF8y8Y
— Carrie Muskat (@CarrieMuskat) March 22, 2016
Old and busted: workout music. The new hotness: the eerie silence of mimes directing men in pyjamas how to warm-up.
Cubs warming up w a pantomime pic.twitter.com/82P3UrYw9d
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) March 22, 2016
This is just another strange incident in the Cubs spring training. Warm-ups seem to be a lightning rod for random behaviour as well, like blindfolding and tying up the strength coach.
— Gordon Wittenmyer (@GDubCub) March 9, 2016
Or a live guitarist playing.
.@Cubs camp today rocking and rolling with @edmayart pic.twitter.com/Y7r8tqak4O
— John Baker (@manbearwolf) March 8, 2016
The warm-up mirrors Madden’s loose attitude towards what his players wear. “The biggest topic of discussion was shorts or not on the road,” Maddon said after meeting with 11 of the senior players to lay down the rules for the season.
“If you think you look hot, you wear it.”
Words to live by.
