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David Haugh: Border wars: Cubs are to Brewers what Packers are to Bears

Usually when a team north of the Illinois border travels to Chicago in September for a showdown worthy of a prime-time audience, it involves Aaron Rodgers and the aroma of brats on a grill.

That script has become as familiar as the opponent and the Bears' envy as green as a Packers jersey.

But here come the Brewers to take on the Cubs on Friday night at Wrigley Field for some baseball drama with the tables turned on Cheeseheads and Chicagoans alike. Like the wannabe Bears so often have viewed the

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