Whicker: Cubs hope to shake off their long, strange trip

LOS ANGELES — Vince Lombardi said “fatigue makes cowards of us all.” But not always. Sometimes it makes clowns and comedians and kids of us all.
Especially when it’s 25 semi-adults, playing the most serious games of their lives and spending the intervening hours coast-to-coast, in a flying prison.
The Chicago Cubs played Game 4 of the NL Division Series at home Wednesday night. They played Game 5 in Washington on Thursday night, and then into Friday morning.
They won, the