Chicago Cubs: Why this was the worst offseason of all-time

The polar vortex

For those of you reading this who are not from Chicago, try to wrap your head around this:

It was colder in Chicago than it was in Antarctica and Siberia this winter.

That’s not an exaggeration.

“Chiberia” saw record lows and mortally frigid temperatures at the beginning of this year with the actual temperature reaching as low as -27 degrees.

Wind chills reached as low as -60 degrees Fahrenheit, causing mayhem around the city. Trains were halted, flights were cancelled and schools and organizations throughout the area were closed.

Viral videos even showed train tracks being “set on fire” in order to prevent the tracks from being pulled apart from each other once temperatures reach below freezing.

Try to comprehend this: Chicago temperatures were even colder than the high temps on parts of Mars.

Thank god the Bears were good, or else the winter would have been completely unbearable for Chicagoans.

Even with a good football team, cabin fever is hard to overcome when you can’t turn on a 7:05 Cubs game to get you through the day. It was quite literally the coldest winter in Chicago history in many categories, easily making the offseason one of the worst that fans had to endure.