This is the Cubs’ year.
That is not to be confused with “the Cubs are going to win the World Series.” Though they might. Which is kind of why this is a Cubs year.
A few franchises in all four of North America’s major sports leagues never have won a championship. But none has gone as long as the Cubs, which last captured a title on Oct. 14, 1908 — or 17 days after Henry Ford produced his first Model T.
Enter baseball’s Winston Wolf (“Pulp Fiction” reference). Theo Epstein solves historic problems. He was the architect who put The Curse and Bill Buckner into the past in Boston.