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It's only one game out of a best-of-seven series, but last night the Cubs did not look like the same team they've been all year. Some highlights: Corey Kluber pitched neatly into the seventh inning, Roberto Perez hit two home runs and the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 tonight in the World Series opener. In a matchup between the teams with baseball's longest championship droughts, the Indians scored twice in the first inning off October ace Jon Lester and were on their way. 7:15 p.m. Dexter...

This is not the way I'd hoped the World Series would open. Update, bottom of the 8th: Really, really, really not the way.

World Series Game 1

The guys over at 538 have proved the Cubs really are the unluckiest team in baseball—but they still give them a 48% chance of winning the World Series: [A]ny ballclub that appears in the postseason often enough — no matter how mediocre its teams are — should eventually be guaranteed a World Series win. But for more than a century’s worth of Cubs squads, no level of greatness has been able to get them over the hump. I determined just how unlucky each franchise has been over its postseason history by...

It's really real: Now all they need to do is update this sign:

Holy shit. They did it. More later; still absorbing it.