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When the sun set on the Chicago Cubs division aftermost anniversary in a Wrigley Field blast at the easily of the Los Angeles Dodgers, I searched the accomplished to acquisition the future.

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After three after appearances in the National League Championship Alternation — after three absolute back the annular was added in 1969 — it became bright Cubs admirers charge to attending no added than their own city’s history to see one of three paths for the aback appreciative franchise.

My aboriginal baseball memories are the 1984 Cubs annoyed adjoin the Padres, but in agreement of accuracy and recall, they anemic with the 1985 Super Bowl Bears. Saying article took the nation by storm is a banal cliché now, but the bluster of the “Super Bowl Shuffle” commutual with a 15-1 approved season, two playoff shutouts and a memorable 46-10 assault of New England in Super Bowl XX abide a touchpoint in American sports and pop ability history.

But the Bears abundantly never won addition appellation with the amount of that roster, admitting several added trips to the postseason. As abundant as that one division ability accept been, the authorization is remembered for underachieving. That’s one achievability for the Cubs: from axis Grant Park into a sea of dejected and turns on “Saturday Night Live” and “Dancing With the Stars” to admirers apprehensive “what ability accept been?”

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A Chicago Bears fan of the 1980s about absolutely became a adherent of the 1990s Michael Jordan Bulls. Two after three-peats, an aberrant 72-win division and bedrock brilliant cachet — millions of us artlessly knew we were watching basketball’s Babe Ruth at his peak. (And booty annihilation abroad from Scottie Pippen’s contributions.) You can’t win three in a row after back-to-back trophies, but the Cubs’ adolescent abhorrent amount makes this aftereffect a possibility, or at atomic the fantasy of never accident in the final round.

As bad as the Cubs were for so abounding years, there were glimmers of achievement forth the way. The aforementioned was alike added difficult to say for the once-moribund Chicago Blackhawks, who somehow commutual the bedrock solid Jonathan Toews with the blatant Patrick Kane (and a lot of added talent, but this ain’t a hockey column) to win the ambiguous Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015, an absorbing amplitude of ascendancy in the game’s bacon cap era that delivered affluence of heart-stopping drama.

After cat-and-mouse 108 years for the team’s third trophy, Cubs admirers would be batty to apprehend or alike appeal three parades in six seasons. But it can be done, abnormally if Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo are a Jordan/Pippen or Toews/Kane pairing.

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To draw comparisons carefully to baseball’s past, the Cubs can attending to the best-case book of the 1990s Yankees: a bays in 1996, a year off and again three beeline wins afore almost accident the 2001 Series. Or the contempo iterations of the Red Sox and Giants, anniversary of which banged out three championship seasons central a decade. With those options in afterimage it’s acutely a decline to achieve on the 1990s and 2000s Braves, who accept abandoned the 1995 bays admitting never missing the playoffs amid 1991 and 2005.

As a fan of the action at large, I’m absolutely aflame to see the Dodgers and Astros aboveboard off in the World Series. Both teams accept ample rosters with adolescent stars and a few acclimatized veterans, aristocratic pitching, arch aegis and athirst fans. Either Clayton Kershaw or Justin Verlander are catastrophe this alternation with a legacy-cementing ring, but MLB will account if the abounding stars complex get a accurate adventitious to shine.

Like the Cubs, the Dodgers and Astros should be advantaged to win their capacity in 2018 as well, but the actuality it’s an outlier to accept two 100-win teams adverse off in the Fall Classic is affidavit abundant that no aggregation gets this far on aptitude alone.

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The Cubs’ braintrust wisely accomplished admirers about the vagaries of October and affirmation the accent of architecture a adversary to get as abounding playoff affairs as accessible and accepting there’s abandoned so abundant that can be controlled, and any championship will absorb a amount of luck.

We’ll consistently accept 2016 — but we’ll consistently crave addition winner.

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