Bram’s Take: Victor and Theo, Curse-Breaking Kinship

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I don’t need to tell you about the history the Chicago Cubs are trying to erase. Even if you don’t know the pertinent dates (1908) or the ghastly figures (Bartman, the Billy Goat) you are acutely aware that this particular Cubs team could be the team that causes a heart to literally break.
No Cubs team — even ones that reached the playoffs — had won 100 games in a season since 1935. This one did.

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