Ladies and Gentlemen, Our Next Rigged Superdynasty

Fuck The Cubs.

Fuck Their Fans.

Fuck The Media.

There, I said it.

Less than 18 hours after the media and this "Sports Over Life" super-culture finally awarded the Cubs their precious drought-ender (which has now absolutely ensured Theo Epstein will go into the Hall of Fame the first chance he gets, deserving or otherwise!!), it has gone exactly as forecast:

• NOW these fuckers forgive Steve Bartman.  
• Cub-fan going around with the "WE WON!" motif.
• In what is probably going to become the next phase of "Sports Over Life", Progressive Field was at least 2-1 Cubs, if not 3-1 or more.
• At least one pair of tickets went for $50,000 in the secondary market last night.  Another went for almost $40,000!  It is almost guaranteed that these were Cubs fans.

Let that last one process, especially.  A year's fucking salary for Game 7?  Or is it THAT IMPORTANT that you had to be there to cheer your Cubs to the ultimate victory?  And if you don't think that's not going to come across as a message to the fans to literally mortgage your life to try to get that ONE...  CRITICAL...  WIN...

And in what almost certainly is the largest pieces of evidence that this is probably going to rival the rigged run of the Jordon Bulls (yes, I spell that intentionally, in homage to an old MJ and NBA hater site), I provide these statements:

• Jeff Pearlman, saying no less than that America NEEDED the Cubs to win.  (CNN)

Gee, that sounds familiar.  Patriots after 9/11?  Red Sox after their drought finally ended???

If the entire country needed this, it almost certainly confirms my worst fears that Commissioner Blinded By The Light is going to rebuild baseball as The National Pastime around one team:  Da Cubs.

Well, that confirms it, as well as this from Sports Media Watch:

• Games 5 and 6 both had ratings not seen since the Steroid Era in baseball for those games of a World Series.  
• Game 5:  13.1 rating, 23.6M viewers.  (Highest Game 5 since 1997)
• Game 6:  13.3 rating, 24M viewers (Again, highest Game 6 since 1997.)
• And Game 7?  Overnights are expecting FORTY MILLION to have watched.  21.8 rating.  The overnights in the best markets were over 25 rating -- the highest rating for ANY SPORTING EVENT minus the NFL and the Olympics since 9/11.
• Highest watched baseball game in 25 years -- the last to beat this number?  It was mentioned at least twice on the broadcast and the color man was one of the pitchers:  1991 Game 7, Twins-Braves.
• Highest-watched sporting event since that game too, sans NFL and Olympics.
• No basketball game EVER has reached 40 million.  The two that came closest are no surprise:  Jordon's last offensive foul game (35.9M), and Magic vs. Bird for the NCAA title (35.1M).
• Game 7 of the NBA Finals for 2016:  31 million
• Not even the Miracle on Ice was seen by as many people on television (34.2 million)
• It is noted that almost all of the previous events got higher ratings, because the number of potential viewers was smaller.