. . .it actually is a sound plan to build a high-tech wonder and wait for the enhanced revenue to purchase high-quality players. As a loyal Seattle fan I can state that that policy has given us every World Series the Mariners have ever won. Which would be one fewer than the Cubs. (Sob!)I must have missed the World Series the Mariners actually did win.
(*FYI---This is from early American history, of course, but the Cubs actually have won two World Series. Back-to-back, even. That, of course, was during the Roosevelt Administration----Theodore's, that is . . .)
The Cubs were one game away from winning the World Series in 1945 (they lost 4 games to 3 to Detroit). That’s the last time they played in the World Series, although they almost made it in 1984 (when they would have had a chance to lose to the Tigers again—San Diego lost 4 games to 1).
So...whatcher tellin’ me is that the M’s have to win two World Series in order to catch up to the Cubbies. Oh, thanks a lot. Let me just go shoot myself now...