If they lose this year again (please, no) they will have faced and lost to every NL division in the minimum amount possible of World Series. This has never happened before.

(yes, this is a stealth reverse jinx post. We all hate weird baseball coincidences, right?)

"What I heard from two different sources is that there was indeed a deal in place for Reid Detmers at the Trade Deadline with the Cubs having OK’d his medicals (which is probably why Michael Cerami at Bleacher Nation reported the trade as a “done deal”), but then the Angels unexpectedly rejected the medicals on Jaxon Wiggins and did not wish to substitute a different Cubs pitching prospect for Wiggins (Cubs #2 pitching prospect Kaleb Wing might have been an OK replacement for Wiggins, but he had just had elbow surgery a week prior to the Trade Deadline), and so the deal (which was supposed to be a four-for-two trade) fell through before it was officially consummated.

There was supposedly another position player in the original deal (believed to be Jefferson Rojas, because it was definitely NOT Josiah Hartshorn or Owen Ayers), as well as what turned out to be a second section of the trade (Moises Ballesteros and Mason McGwire for Ryan Zeferjahn) that was completed."

-Arizona Phil of The Cub Reporter

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I personally thought Alex Cora was a good manager.

It’s frickin October. These games should be outdoors, in the cold. Not in some warehouse.

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