Did the Cubs become just another ordinary team by winning the World Series in 2016? I mean, if you had to define uniqueness, going 108 years in between championships is certainly a suitable denotation. Since then, however, it seems expectations have been elevated with each passing season. Perhaps Lin Brehmer, former morning and current afternoon drive host at Chicago rock station WXRT said it best after the Cubs broke that long-standing curse:
“Just as the Cubs are built on Wrigley and the ivy and the lovable losing, their identity is equally intertwined with bizarre tales of woe: The smelly goat whose eviction cursed the team in 1945; the black cat who crossed their paths in ‘69; that guy in glasses — we dare not speak his name — who reached for a foul ball in 2003.