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3 Strange Coincidences in Back to the Future regarding the Cubs' World Series Run
Posted by Billy on Oct 25th 2016 at 4:08 pm
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How about them Cubbies? This Friday, the winner of the National League pennant will take Wrigley Field for the first time in seventy-one years. Hard to believe.
If this were all happening just one year earlier, Back to the Future Part II would have called the whole thing too. That film famously predicted that the Cubs would defeat the "Gators" in the 2015 World Series. It didn't happen, of course, but we've gotten no fewer than three strange coincidences instead.
1. On their way to the 2015 World Series, the Cubs were swept by the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series in Game 4, which was played on October 21, 2015, the same day as Back to the Future Day, the date to which Marty McFly travels in Back to the Future Part II.
2. The Mets went on to lose the World Series to the Kansas City Royals, who last won the World Series in 1985, the year in which Back to the Future was released and the year that serves as "present day" for Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II.
3. Bob Gale, who wrote the screenplays for all three parts of the Back to the Future trilogy, is a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, the team that in 2015 the Cubs beat in their National League Division Series in order to advance and play the Mets for the pennant.
This time next week, the story could get either more or less eerie, depending on how Chicago’s North-Side team fares. Marty McFly’s 2015 Cubs swept their World Series. Maybe someone ought to have a word with Bob Gale if the 2016 Cubs end up doing the same thing.
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