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Interesting, but while sports scandals or soccer or other sports subjects are discussed here, no thread was put up regarding possibly the best fought World Series of the last twenty or thirty years - the seven game battle of the "cursed" Chicago Cubs and "cursed" Cleveland Indians, which ended in the tenth extra inning with a score of 8 to seven in favor of the Cubs. This put a kaibosh on the Cubbies' curse of 108 years without winning the Worlds Series. Put another way, the 1908 series (famous in Baseball lore for the classic outfield of "Tinker to Taylor to Chance") was won by Chicago when Theodore Roosevelt was still President. They had to wait to the end of the Presidency of Barack Obama to win again (Cleveland won last in 1948, when Harry Truman was President)*. While one can imagine the disappointment in Cleveland, and sympathize with it, one feels a bit jubilant for the "Second City" ("Windy City", "Chi.") and its' happy citizens. Many hearty congratulations.
[*Another way to think of it: In 1908 it was only twenty years after the Whitechapel Murders, and more of the documentation and evidence was still in existence - not quite the case in 2016.]
Jeff
[*Another way to think of it: In 1908 it was only twenty years after the Whitechapel Murders, and more of the documentation and evidence was still in existence - not quite the case in 2016.]
Jeff
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