From the New York Times, an inspiring letter to the editor from a cubs fan. you may relate.
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To the Editor:
Re "Walking It Off," by Bob Greene (Op-Ed, Oct. 18):
Having grown up in the Bronx a few miles from Yankee Stadium, but living now a few minutes' walk from Wrigley Field, I must disagree with Mr. Greene's statement that "nobody lost" in Chicago and that what happened "is not irretrievably melancholy."
To deny the reality of loss is to miss the lesson of the Cubs. If a consumer product, scientific theory or political party consistently failed for 95 years, how many adherents would it retain? Yet millions of people around the world adhere to the Chicago Cubs.
To walk into Wrigley Field is to know that life inevitably means loss, that even the sunniest day has its shadows and ends in darkness, but that to persist and never surrender, even in the face of irretrievable melancholy, is heroic.
The question must be asked: Do the Yankees teach us any lesson as profound?
STUART ALTSCHULER
Chicago, Oct. 18, 2003
Theeeeeee Yankees lose! Rekon the Sox are further along the way to being recovered, and preparing to kick Yankee but next year, that's where they are. 
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