Not sure what’s more impressive - getting cussed out (repeatedly) by Reggie Jackson, or playing on a basketball team with Michael Jordan. Gene Wojciechowski has one of the coolest journalism jobs in the country - he’s one of the lead columnists for ESPN.com. Q: Let’s start with a team near and dear to you, the Cubs. You said their loss to the Dodgers wasn’t a choke. What about Dempster’s walks in game one (choking under pressure?) and then the four errors in game two? If you have a spectacular regular season as the Cubs did, and then fail under pressure in the postseason is that a choke? Do you think anything significant has to be done to get this team to end the nine-game postseason skid? Or can this same group succeed next year? How about a new word: a cho-llapse–a combination of choke and collapse (though, it sort of...
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