{"id":13381,"date":"2021-07-30T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bill-murray-is-making-a-strong-case-to-be-the-new-chicago-cubs-gm\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:49:44","slug":"bill-murray-is-making-a-strong-case-to-be-the-new-chicago-cubs-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/bill-murray-is-making-a-strong-case-to-be-the-new-chicago-cubs-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Murray Is Making a Strong Case to Be the New Chicago Cubs GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, nature is beginning to heal. People are outside. Masks are coming off, ever so slowly. Even Lorde is back. Oh. One more sign of our apocalypse reversal: the legend (and noted Chicago Cubs superfan) Bill Murray is out and about, singing &#8220;Take Me Out to the Ball Game&#8221; at the Cubs&#8217; first full-capacity game since the start of the pandemic. Even better? Aside from welcoming Chicago&#8217;s faithful back to Wrigley Field, Bill Murray is back to saying Bill Murray things to local press. And this one&#8217;s a gem. For some context: the Cubbies are enjoying a solid season so far\u2014tied for first in the&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Esquire<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a36715230\/bill-murray-chicago-cubs-gm\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, nature is beginning to heal. People are outside. Masks are coming off, ever so slowly. Even Lorde is back. Oh. One more sign of our apocalypse reversal: the legend (and noted Chicago Cubs superfan) Bill Murray is out and about, singing &#8220;Take Me Out to the Ball Game&#8221; at the Cubs&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":13382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bill Murray Is Making a Strong Case to Be the New Chicago Cubs GM - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bill-murray-is-making-a-strong-case-to-be-the-new-chicago-cubs-gm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bill Murray Is Making a Strong Case to Be the New Chicago Cubs GM - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you haven&#039;t heard, nature is beginning to heal. 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