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Impact Trades: Cubs trade for Kyle Hendricks
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CLEVELAND -- Maybe curses take real magic to break.
Maybe deep heartache takes the nearly impossible to cure because, having lost hope, the only remedy is for it to be replenished by what feels too much like a miracle to ignore.
Maybe these kinds of baseball demons -- those that have lasted 108 years in Chicago, that have taken form in the Never Say Die Mets and the San Diego Padres and poor Steve Bartman -- get exorcised only in the most grueling and unlikely of trials.