Paul Sullivan: The Ex-Cub Factor correctly predicted the Astros' World Series demise
by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
Oct 31, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Thinking of late, great Chicago writer Mike Royko on Wednesday night as the Nationals celebrated their Game 7 win over the Astros, knowing he would have a huge grin on his face.
The Nats were still the Montreal Expos when Royko was alive, and he had no affinity whatsoever for the franchise. And, as his political columns suggested, Royko was no fan of the city of Washington.
But he was a huge booster of the Ex-Cub Factor, a wacky theory that has been around for nearly 40 years and that correctly predicted
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