One of the things I remember vividly about the 2016 World Series was all the talk about the weight of history on the shoulders of the Cubs. This was a team that had become synonymous with losing, whose mythos revolved around billy goats and black cats keeping them from the top of the baseball world.
The thing about the 2016 Cubs was, they were too young to worry about history: Anthony Rizzo was 27, Kris Bryant 24, and Javy Baez 23. The players that eventually won the whole thing didn’t have a frame of reference for a century of Chicago failure.