While traveling across country this summer my wife and I met a couple at a rest area along interstate 80 - the guy was wearing a T-shirt that said something like "My amazing daughter brought me this Chicago Cubs shirt". I said maybe this would be their year 'cause the cubs had the best record in the league at that time. He told us he was from Chicago and his wife was from Cleveland, which was where they now lived. At the time the Cleveland Cavaliers were ahead in the NBA finals and he hoped they'd bring a championship home to Cleveland, and maybe, just maybe it'd be the cubbies year too.
One championship in the bag for the guy, and I'm rooting that he'll get this one too. Of course, the in-laws might have different hopes since the cubbies are playing the Indians in the series.
Slothead