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Until yesterday, 25,951 days had passed since the last time the Cubs won a game in the World Series. And tomorrow night, it will have been 25,951 days since the last time a World Series game has been played at Wrigley Field. More than that, as of today, 39,460 days have passed since the last time the Cubs won the whole thing. Let's keep that last number under 39,467, OK? Eamus Catuli!

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.