Bye-bye, billy goat. The curse
is over. The Chicago Cubs capped a memorable season with a thrilling 8-7 Game 7
victory over the Cleveland Indians in ten innings last night, to end a 108-year
World Series drought. As for the Indians, they will have to wait until next
year to end their now 68-year wait. And while I was rooting for Cleveland to
win, you have to be happy for the Cubs and admire their effort. Down three
games to one, and seemingly having no answer for the Cleveland pitching staff,
they pulled off the comeback, the first team to rally from such a deficit in
the Fall Classic since the 1985 Kansas City Royals.
Aside from that, Chicago is also
the first team to win Games 6 & 7 of the World Series on the road since the
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates, who also rallied from being down three games to one.
So now that the Cubs have won,
there will be no more talking about a curse. Boston destroyed the Curse of the
Bambino, the White Sox wiped out the Curse of the Black Sox, and now the Cubs
said good-bye to the Curse of the Billy Goat.
And while you must feel good for
players like Anthony Rizzo, Jake Arrietta, Dexter Fowler and Kris Bryant, who
can’t help but feel a bit sorry for all those great Cubs’ player of the past
108 years who never got to win the Fall Classic: Ernie Banks, for example, or
Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg or Sammy Sosa.
And now it’s on to the next
lengthy drought. But it will be some time before the Indians’ streak of
futility reaches the epic ineptitude of Boston or either of the Chicago teams.
Those three streaks were pretty, pathetically long and the way the Indians
roster is stacked with talent, their drought should be over in the next couple
of years.
Anyway, congrats to the Cubs and
here’s hoping winter goes by quickly.
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