It's been a tough year for Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell. After nine seasons of managing the Milwaukee Brewers, Counsell left the Brewers last offseason to a sign a five-year, $40 million contract with the Cubs,

That's because the Brewers officially qualified for the 2024 postseason with a Wednesday afternoon loss by Craig Counsell's Chicago Cubs. That's the same Craig Counsell from Whitefish Bay who left the Brewers last fall after managing the team for nine seasons for the rival Cubs.

When the Chicago Cubs made Craig Counsell the highest-paid manager in baseball history, thus pilfering the leader of the rival Milwaukee Brewers in the process, this is not the end result the front office had in mind.