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I don't follow baseball all that much, but come playoff time I try to read up on who's winning what series and then root for the underdog. Or the team that hasn't had much success and tries in vain to achieve it. Enter the Chicago Cubs.

It might be a bit personal for me to list everything on a simple blog that needs to happen before I die so that, in my humble opinion, I will have led a happy & full life. One of those things is that my Ottawa Senators needs to have won the Stanley Cup at least once. Statistically speaking, it should happen once every thirty years but as we all know, there's nothing set in pro sports. Even the New York Yankees failed to make the post-season this year after usually being a gimme year in and year out.

So when the chance of a Cup slips by my Sens, I think no further than one of the oldest franchises in all of North American major league sports (maybe the entire world, but I didn't do that much research), the Chicago Cubs, to make me feel a little better about their playoff failures. This year will mark the 100th anniversary since their last World Series victory. ONE HUNDRED YEARS! Even the original Senators franchise had some Cup wins in the 20's and 30's to tide them over until today. The NHL, NBA and NFL weren't even in existence the last time they managed to take it all. And the last time they've made it just to the finals was in 1945.

The Cubs managed to make the post-season this year, but made little noise after getting swept by the L.A. Dodgers. The only memorable thing to have occurred were the four errors charged to the Cubs' infield, tying a division series record for most errors in a game. And really, that's something you'd rather forget.

So if your 49ers have done little, if your Leafs have faltered for decades, if you're sad the Clippers are still run by inept management, it could be worse, you could be a Cubs fan.