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The Cubs have not been to the World Series since the 1940s and have not won a title since 1908 and now that streak will continue for another year.

You can now officially shove that prediction in the trash along with the film’s visions of hoverboards, self-lacing shoes and flying cars.

Getting swept by the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series is something the Chicago Cubs team and fans will soon want to forget. That series shifts back to Kansas City Friday night after the Blue Jays won Game 5 Wednesday by a 7-1 score.

Unfortunately, there just weren’t enough games for Turner to really cash in.

The Mets and Cubs series also gave TBS, which is the sister network of CNN, its biggest NLCS audience ever.

Supplying a steady stream of home runs, New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy was a constant threat in the National League Championship Series. He’s signed for one more year with a team option, and in the meantime the Cubs will search for a few arms as the Mets exposed them with a much deeper rotation. Chicago did not score more than three runs in any of the games this series. “Six games in a row of home runs in the playoffs”, Wright said.

Mets first baseman Lucas Duda had a homer, a double and five RBIs in the first two innings alone to put an early damper on the excitement at Wrigley Field.

The eighth inning bomb to center field was also Murphy’s sixth in as many games to surpass Carlos Beltran’s 2004 record for the most consecutive postseason game with a home run. Not only that, I think the biggest thing for me is they know how to compete. Combining his stats from both series, Murphy is batting.

Bartolo Colon, who relieved New York starting pitcher Steven Matz and pitched 1 1/3 innings, was credited with the win, while Cubs starter Jason Hammel, who surrendered five runs in just 1 1/3 innings, took the loss.

But if you either watched or didn’t watch Game 4, the question you may have had going in – besides whether the Mets would end the series or the Cubs might stay alive – is if Daniel Murphy could hit yet another home run?

Duda added a two-run double in the top of the second inning to make it 6-0 Mets.

Murphy, a left-handed hitter who hit just one homer off a left-hander in the regular season, blasted one off Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw in Game 1 of the NL Division Series. The Mets will begin the World Series on the road next Tuesday, October 27.