So this year is it. “I would tell them, ‘0-for-14?” In fact, they have more wins on the road than either of the two teams ahead of them in the division. Their World Series drought dates to 1908 and there has been more heartbreak along the way than Heath or any other Cubs fan would care to remember.
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With a young core and a strong one-two punch at the top of the rotation, the Chicago Cubs are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
On Wednesday night, the Chicago Cubs won their first playoff game in a dozen years, and the Friendly Confines faithful are losing their minds. 426 in the month of September so that the same fans who complained that The Cubs couldn’t get anything for Starlin even if they traded him now clapped fiercely to Omega El-Fuerte-Ando en La Versace? But still, just to be safe, it might be time for the Cubs to book Huey Lewis for the next 7th-inning stretch singalong at Wrigley.
The iconic dinosaur outside Chicago’s Field Museum is wearing a Cub’s jersey.
From that game on, the “Miracle” Mets mounted an 18-5 record on their way to the World Series and the Cubs went 8-12 and faded from the postseason picture.
“Now, it looks like the days of the curse are behind my Cubs”, Colbert said. The Cubs are going to win the World Series!
“He’s keeping his cool but maybe that’s because he’s had a lot more disappointment along the way than I have”, he said.
He then went on to address “The Curse of the Billy Goat” and declared it over, recapping the legend and a few of the ridiculous stunts that have gone on in an attempt to end the curse. And joining me to talk about all this is Grantland’s Jonah Keri. Since 1945, this year’s 97 wins has been equaled only once, in 2008, when Sweet Lou Piniella was the manager. Colbert, a former Chicago resident and Cubs fan, pretty perfectly outlines what has actually “cursed” the Cubs with, obviously, good humor.
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“Miracles do happen”, he said.
