Frank's Place: Cubs as champions? Rockwell might not approve

Sorry, but I don't want the Cubs to win the World Series.

That franchise's 108-year run of ineptitude - punctuated by Bartman, billy goats and memorably bad baseball - is one of the sport's most compelling story lines. Sacrificing so much delicious history for the brief satisfaction of a Michigan Avenue parade seems an unworthy trade-off.

For me, the Cubs will always be best captured by a framed Norman Rockwell print I pass on every trip up and down the stairs in our home.

"The Dugout", sometimes called "Bottom of the Ninth", was one of Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post covers, that one from Sept.