FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2012, file photo, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, left, watches batting practice with manager Dale Sveum before a game against the Milwaukee Brewers... more 

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2012, file photo, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, left, watches batting practice with manager Dale Sveum before a game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Chicago. Even for a team with a record of futility unmatched in professional baseball and, heck, all of professional sports, this season has been one of the most dismal in Cubs history. About the only good thing that could be said about a team poised to lose 100 games for the first time in 46 years--one of which came after the shortstop trotted off the field thinking there were three outs instead of two--is that it is doing so in front of fewer fans than any year in the last decade. (AP Photo/Charlie Arbogast, File less