Cubs SS Russell ruled out for NLCS with hamstring injury

He dismisses as rubbish any suggestion that a little black cat had anything to do with the team’s heartbreaking collapse down the stretch in 1969, too. But there was nothing like the drive Kyle Schwarber hit during the final game against St. Louis, a massive shot that settled on top of the scoreboard in right field. “Oh my god, that was a sign”.

The Cubs worked out for about two hours Thursday, with their young sluggers putting on another show during batting practice.

Despite a record $289 million payroll, the Dodgers have remained without a World Series title since 1988.

Jets’ receiver, Brandon Marshall, formerly a member of the Chicago Bears, asked his Twitter followers on Friday which team, the Mets or Cubs, he should root for in the NLCS.

“Just trying to casually walk to second and hoping that nobody called time because, I look like an idiot if somebody calls time and I run to third”, Murphy said.

None of the other three quite stack up to that of the Cubs, who have gone over 39 thousand days without a World Series title. Sure, general manager Sandy Alderson, underrated his whole career, has cobbled together this team with real talent, most obviously in the rotation.

“If they win this next series and they go to the World Series, it’s going to get crazier and crazier as it goes along and we’re going to see the madness around here”, said 27-year-old local resident Jason Patt. “But I was saying, no, we’re not going to be slaves to history”. “I’ll be ready for Game 2”. “I wear that jersey every time he pitches”. The 82-year-old lifelong Cubs fan did this before the Cubs won the division series, and it’s apparently working.

“I went through 2003 when all that stuff happened with Bartman”. Cubs Cy Young candidate Arrieta beat the Mets twice this season, and he has taken off since then.

Led by future Hall-of-Famers Frank Chance and Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown, the Cubbies went 99-55 and defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to one in the 1908 World Series.

For their part, the Cubs are staying far away from all this talk. Even for Mets fans, whose fandom is founded in fully expecting, with good reason, the worst fates to befall them (while, still, of course, finding a way to Gotta Believe), the Fear was unusually powerful. “Pretty much hits everybody’s fastball”. Dunkin Donuts is making square treats with white icing and a blue W in the shape of the “win” flags that fly at Wrigley Field when the Cubs are triumphant.