Events

Until yesterday, 25,951 days had passed since the last time the Cubs won a game in the World Series. And tomorrow night, it will have been 25,951 days since the last time a World Series game has been played at Wrigley Field. More than that, as of today, 39,460 days have passed since the last time the Cubs won the whole thing. Let's keep that last number under 39,467, OK? Eamus Catuli!

It's only one game out of a best-of-seven series, but last night the Cubs did not look like the same team they've been all year. Some highlights: Corey Kluber pitched neatly into the seventh inning, Roberto Perez hit two home runs and the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 tonight in the World Series opener. In a matchup between the teams with baseball's longest championship droughts, the Indians scored twice in the first inning off October ace Jon Lester and were on their way. 7:15 p.m. Dexter...

This is not the way I'd hoped the World Series would open. Update, bottom of the 8th: Really, really, really not the way.

The guys over at 538 have proved the Cubs really are the unluckiest team in baseball—but they still give them a 48% chance of winning the World Series: [A]ny ballclub that appears in the postseason often enough — no matter how mediocre its teams are — should eventually be guaranteed a World Series win. But for more than a century’s worth of Cubs squads, no level of greatness has been able to get them over the hump. I determined just how unlucky each franchise has been over its postseason history by...

It's really real: Now all they need to do is update this sign:

Holy shit. They did it. More later; still absorbing it.

Still busy. So busy. Some intrepid Tribune reporters went to every bar in Wrigleyville so you don't have to. Meanwhile, Crain's went to a bunch of breweries and wineries in Southwestern Michigan so you can also. Do you want to hear Trump's self-immolation at last night's Alfred E Smith dinner? Better yet, just go back and re-watch last night's Cubs game. They're one away from their first pennant since 1945. This could happen... And now I have to set up a development environment.

Recaps of the debate comprise just a few of the things I haven't had time to read today: Who hated Trump's caginess on whether he'd accept the election results if he lost? Everyone: The Economist, The New Republic, The National Review, Talking Points Memo, everyone.  Trump's debate performance is being compared to book reports by kids who haven't read the book. Pilot Patrick Smith says Trump's airline wasn't that bad for customers, but it never made a profit either. Meanwhile, the Cubs beat the Dogders...

Sigh. Here we go again. 21:14 EDT: Fifteen minutes on the 2nd Amendment, argued by someone who has never read the thing. And now, abortion, which apparently will be overturned "automatically" if he appoints pro-life judges. 21:19: No, Donald, you can't rip the baby out of the womb in the 9th month. I mean, FFS. 21:22: It took fully 15 minutes for him to descend into a stream-of-consciousness. That's pretty good self-control. (Did he just say "bad hombres?") 21:24: This, from my cousin. 21:26: No score...

A couple of milestones today. First, just a couple of days before my 2-year anniversary with Fitbit, I've earned what they call the "Africa Badge:" I've walked 8,046 km since I joined, which is approximately the north-south length of Africa. More interestingly, today is the 235th anniversary of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, an anniversary Alexander Hamilton may have been aware of when, 15 years later, he slyly accused Thomas Jefferson of having an affair with a slaves. The allegation was true...