Those lovable, cuddly Cubbies are not the only feel-good story in baseball this season. The less-celebrated, relatively anonymous Cleveland Indians deserve a little love too.
As I write this Saturday morning, the Indians are already in the World Series, their first trip there since 1997. The Cubs remain one victory away from their first World Series appearance since 1945, with the specter of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and all of those curses blocking their path.
The Cubs will be the big story, whether they get in or even if they blow it again. But Cleveland, which has not won a World Series since beating the Boston Braves in 1948, has some tortured history of its own.