The 2026 Cubs & the Rarity of Contention

I hope the 2026 Chicago Cubs win the World Series. This probably isn't very important seeing as I also wanted the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series in 2025, 2024, and every year before that until you reach 1998 --the first year I became aware of baseball in any kind of substantial way. But once I did, I retroactively wished that they had won the World Series in every year before that...all the…