It took a three to one series deficit, seven games, extra innings and a rain delay but the lovable losers finally did it. The Chicago Cubs are World Champions for the first time in over a century. They have been through it all collapsing in 1969, 1984 and 2003, cursed by black cats, a billy goat and Steve Bartman.
“If you want to believe in that kind of stuff, it’s going to hold you back for a long time.I love tradition. I think tradition is worth time mentally, and tradition is worth being upheld. But curses and superstitions are not,” Cubs Manager Joe Maddon said.