Maybe one could see all of the various challenges the World Series favorites and league leader in wins (103) would face, but there is no way anyone could’ve written a better championship script for the Cubs. Besides that, what if I told you that the Cubs – with their 8-7 victory in extra innings – passed the torch of longest championship drought in baseball onto the team they beat – the Cleveland baseball team – at 68 years? What if I told you that the Cubs would become the first team to overcome a 3-1 series deficit in the World Series since the 1985 Kansas City Royals? That sounds more like it, doesn’t it? What if I told you that the seventh game wouldn’t be decided in regulation, and wouldn’t even be decided until after a rain delay separated the ninth inning from the 10th?Ĭhicago Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler hits a solo home run against the Cleveland Indians in the first inning of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series at Progressive Field. Then-Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray promised it back in 1991: “Sure as God made green apples, someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series.” That’s not the kind of finale that makes great stories, at least not this story. How would you write that script? It couldn’t be easy because a team and fan base who have been starved for a championship for well over a century simply can’t win a best-of-seven series that easily.

Seriously, picture the idea of baseball’s lovable losers finally having things go their way just long enough for them to finish the season on top for the first time since 1908. Imagine the Chicago Cubs winning a World Series.

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