You could talk about fairness, but then you’d have to remember that the team in the opposing dugout, the scary young team that silenced PNC Park from the first batter to the last one Wednesday night, hasn’t won a World Series since Theodore Roosevelt lived in the White House.
You could talk about Jake Arrieta’s mastery and curse the system for pitting the second-best team in the majors for 162 games against the pitcher most capable of ending your season in one, but then you’d have to remember that Gerrit Cole didn’t give the Pirates much of a chance to beat the Cubs even if they had scrapped together a couple runs.