The Cubs drought is such a cruel joke that when Back to the Future Part II came out in 1989, the prospect of the team winning a World Series was treated the same way as Jaws 19.
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Most Cubs fans are too superstitious to toss goats from their TV show or guarantee a World Series title. And so if there is any one pitcher that you would consider riding deep into this game and not treated as a – what you would call a bullpen game, it could be Arrieta.
“I’ll give up if they don’t win this year”, Heath said Thursday in the lobby of the nursing home about a mile from Wrigley Field. The Cubs were four games over. WATCH: Marty McFly gets his bright ideaMany see it as a good omen. Jon Lester, who was the Boston Red Sox ace in the 2013 postseason, will have to take the hill game one, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Cubs are going to win the World Series! He ended the regular season on a 22-inning scoreless streak and got the win in 22 of the Cubs’ 97 victories. And they do an excellent job. That’s right; the Cubs have not been World Champions since Theodore Roosevelt was president. They do have Jason Hammel who went 10-7 with a 3.72 ERA, but he might not match up well against other teams given his lack of postseason success.
Outfielder Moises Alou raced over, timed his jump perfectly, opened his glove wide – and got beat to the ball by a 26-year-old youth baseball coach sitting in Section 4, Row 8, Seat 113, who didn’t do anything more strenuous than stand up. Unfortunately the Miami Marlins, South Florida’s current MLB team, was eliminated from playoff contention in early September, and as a fellow National League team couldn’t face the Cubs in the Series anyway.
MGM Resorts global, where Chicago had double the amount of bets as the next closest team, the St. Louis Cardinals, and also the most money behind them.
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The way that they won it a year ago was basically with bullpen, with defense and with base running.
