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Is it better for baseball if the Cubs win?
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CLEVELAND -- A lot of things had to go right for Roberto Perez to get the start behind the plate in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Well, actually, a lot of things had to go wrong for the Indians. Perez wasn't even Plan B behind the plate. He was Plan C.
For Perez to get the start behind the plate, first Yan Gomes had to have a terrible, awful, no good, very bad season.