The Cubs Can Win the World Series, and It’s All Because Back to the Future II

If you haven’t heard, the Chicago Cubs are officially in the National League Championship Series and have arguably their best shot of all time at winning the World Series and breaking the Cubs curse. And it’s all because of Back to The Future Part II. Wait. Whaaat?

That’s right folks. Back to the Future Part II, the nerdy yet undeniably cool movie that sent the fliest White boy of the 80s, Marty McFly, 20 years into the future has become the new benchmark for prophecies. Move over Game of Thrones, there is no woods witch this side of the Tigris and Euphrates that could’ve predicted the beasts that the Chicago Cubs would become this year. Oh you want evidence? Silly rabbit.Peep that hologram? Cubbies winning the World Series! Do you have any idea idea how hyped Cubs fans were when this movie came out in ’85? Nah, you right, they was mad as hell. Damn, they must’ve been like, “Well, on one hand at least I know we’ll win a World Series in 2015. On the other hand, that means it will be the only Cubs championship in 107 years, and I might not even be alive in 20 years. That’s cold.”

They did it the right way too. The way baseball is supposed to be done these days! They built their team using their farm system to call up amazing young arms and dynamic hitters. Long gone are the Barry Bonds home run happy steroid years. Yup. As a kid in Chicago, what a time, to be alive.

Other things Back to the Future Twostradamus got right: Video Calls: The long desired face-to-face chats that …

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