{"id":8034,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2016-10-31T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:43:34","slug":"that-time-i-jinxed-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/that-time-i-jinxed-the-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"That time I jinxed the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS
\nOctober 30, 2016:<\/strong> Nowhere to park, of course, but I did drive by Wrigley Field on the day the Cubs hosted a World Series game \u2014 one of only three days someone could say that since 1945.<\/em><\/p>\n

On the night of October 14, 2003, I was in charge of laying out the front page of the Iowa State Daily<\/em>. For the centerpiece, we were banking on the Chicago Cubs winning the NLCS and advancing to the World Series. I had a headline and everything \u2014 “Holy Cow” with the “C” being the Cubs logo \u2014 but I could only do so much before the game ended, so I had time to check out the last few innings.<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m on design duty again tonight. I apologize in advance \u2014 but this time around, I’m pretty sure I had nothing to do with Javier Baez striking out in the bottom of the ninth with two runners on base in Game 4. Then again, when I was in Merrillville, Indiana, Saturday night buying a Cubs shirt (both as a souvenir of my vacation and because the Cubs won the pennant[!!!]<\/em>), the music on the sound system was Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.”<\/a> I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP.<\/p>\n

The lesson is, all it takes to activate this latent Cubs fan turned off of Major League Baseball by the 1994 strike is a good season and big bandwagon. There are already enough die-hard Cubs\/Iowa State and Vikings\/Iowa State fans out there, and I admire their fortitude but can only handle so much.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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