What if the Cubs win NLCS Game 5 in 1984?

Getty Images The Cubs won the NL East in 1984, making the postseason for the first time in 39 years. Just to give some perspective: If the 2016 World Series win had been their first postseason appearance in 39 years, the previous one would have been in 1977. All of the Cubs’ postseason appearances after 1945 came after 1977.

So if you did not live through that era, you can understand the joy Cubs fans felt when they won the division and won the first two games of the NLCS at Wrigley Field.

I’ve already written here about how the Cubs did NOT lose a home game in the NLCS that year because of the lack of lights. (The lost home game would have been in the World Series, if they’d won the NL…