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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.

Still busy. So busy. Some intrepid Tribune reporters went to every bar in Wrigleyville so you don't have to. Meanwhile, Crain's went to a bunch of breweries and wineries in Southwestern Michigan so you can also. Do you want to hear Trump's self-immolation at last night's Alfred E Smith dinner? Better yet, just go back and re-watch last night's Cubs game. They're one away from their first pennant since 1945. This could happen... And now I have to set up a development environment.