Cubs fans had the habit of knowing how to handle a throttling

That's why the Chicago Cubs should not have been allowed to win the 2016 World Series: their fans can no longer enjoy the Cubs last week.

Previously, they were able to properly appreciate the idea of ​​being swept home at home in four consecutive games at a race: "Has not this happened since 1919? It's so much the Cubs. They had a habit of getting rid of a four-part sweep in Wrigley against the hated Cardinals with a jaunty: "The last time was 1921?" Beauty. Kris Bryant is injured Sunday trying to thwart a double game? Cubs. Six consecutive losses in the 24th week of a 25-week season? Cubs. Ranging from a starting point to four lost games, and about to be adopted by the Mets, which remain afloat only because they levy a fee each time someone says the word " dysfunctional? "Oh, really, wolf cubs.

And yet, the "16 World Series" ruined everything. The almost urban catharsis that illuminated the sky in 2016 allows Cubs fans to say to themselves, "Well, we at least have it. Now all my dead parents can die happy. This also prevents them from fully absorbing the extinction of 2019 with all the respect that Cub's fans used to be able to order, especially for people who did not want to hear about it.

I agree, it sounds a lot like the post-mortem version of the old silly postulate, If the Cubs win, the fanbase loses its character. It was stupid then, and it's stupid now.

But this invokes the third law of the garage: you have only too much space. For all that you get in life, you have to bring something to the dump, or depot store, or lawn with a sign saying "Free". In exchange for a parade in 2016 that everyone, not a fan of the White Sox, loved and cherished for all eternity, Cubs fans have lost the ability to fully appreciate and treat the tracheostomy of 2019.

I do not really know if all this is undeniably true, because I know very few Cubs fans and those I know have the kindness and decency to maintain a respectful distance of 1,600 miles. But I know that fans who wear their historical chess like a miner's hat are pretty much the same everywhere – they use these chess as a wall load in the temple of their sports fantasies. The Cubs ruined everything, so their misery counter was reset. Joe Maddon's safe shooters will carry the standard "But We Were A World Series" caveat, and the misfortune of Theo Epstein's inability to dance his analytical dance is underscored by the ring at the waist. her head.

The Cubs are just another team that has thrown up on itself like a thousand others, and their fans do not have time to talk at the bar: "My great-grandfather saw the Cubs win in 1908, and I fear that my child does not know that moment. What they had heard before is feigned sympathy; now they will have, "I am a fan of Padre; will fall on a staircase. "

But objectively, it was a hellish collapse. They lived "for a century without victory", doing two things the same day that did not happen since the administration of Coolidge and then hurting a man – now that it's historically Cubs. It's just that no one will appreciate it properly. Even if they lose their last six games by one point – three in Pittsburgh against a team that fights every two months, whether they like it or not, then three in Saint-Louis face the only fan base that can make cubs cry, it will not matter how it should be. Even if they play 22 innings with two rain delays and Angel Hernandez next Sunday to finish behind the Phillies and Diamondbacks as well as the Mets, this will not be part of the legacy of the Cubs.

Unless, of course, we're at the beginning of a new 108-year-old championship gap and global warming will burn Wrigley Field into a soot-soaked soot well before that date. Let's keep a good thought, huh children? That could be the beginning of something really … well, Cub.

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