Cubs-Padres playoff series might air on same network 1984 series did

Steve Garvey watches his game-winning home run sail over the left-field wall to end Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the Cubs on Oct. 6, 1984.AP

For Cubs fans of a certain age, next week could bring back some bad memories.

Not only will the Cubs likely face the Padres in a wild-card series, conjuring images of the team’s collapse in the 1984 playoffs, but the three-game set could air on the very same network that the ’84 series did.

ESPN has the rights to all four MLB wild-card series Tuesday-Thursday. The network will air one of those series on ABC. In 1984, Don Drysdale, Reggie Jackson and Earl Weaver called the National League Championship Series between the Cubs…