The Cubs had gone 108 years without winning the World Series and I was in a bar in Pasadena when they ended the drought
In 1989 a scriptwriter called Bob Gale needed to sort out a plot twist for Back to the Future Part II, the one where Marty McFly ends up riding a hoverboard in 2015. “What was the most absurd thing you could think of in 1989?” Gale said, many years later. “What would make Marty McFly go: “WHAT???” What would make him want to bet on sports? And it was the Cubs winning the World Series.”
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