[Scoutmaster]

"The last time the Cubs won a National League pennant was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan."

Lyrics of A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, by the late Steve Goodman.

[maine yankee]

Back in the early 90’s I was living in St Louis. Some of us took the train for the first game against the Cubs at the friendly confines.

The first batter for St Louis, on the first pitch, hit a home run.

A fan in the bleachers held up a sign;

WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR !

[Doomonyou]

Lyrics of A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, by the late Steve Goodman.

But now they only bring fatigue

To the home of the brave

The land of the free

And the doormat of the National League.

Awesome song, I listened to it last night after the Giants beat them.

[Verginius Rufus]

They almost won the World Series in 1945--they lost 4 games to 3 to Detroit.

They nearly made it to the World Series in 1984, losing the playoffs to San Diego...if they had beaten San Diego, they would have had the opportunity to lose another series to Detroit (the AL champions in 1984).

In 1984 Mike Royko wrote a column about how Chicago should win the playoffs because San Diego wasn't enough of a baseball town--the people there didn't care as deeply about the sport as the Cubs fans in Chicago.