Imagine your favorite baseball team up at bat in the last inning of the final world series game. The count is full and the pitcher starts to wind up. You sit biting your nails, hoping the batter makes contact. The ball flies 90 miles per hour straight down the line and SMACK! Your team hits the ball. The ball flies up in the air and right outta’ there: a perfect ending and great victory for your home team.

Unfortunately, Chicago Cubs fan have not experienced this feeling since 1908, and their postseason records have been less than satisfactory. It is not easy being a Cubs fan, especially when you live in Milwaukee.

As the postseason has begun, us Cubs fans started to feel a glimmer of hope as they clutched a win for the first round. Maybe this year will be different! Maybe my team will finally break the Billy Goat Curse!

Think again.

As my family and I sit and watch the second round, nothing but pure heartbreak is felt. Nobody understands heartbreak more than a Cubs fan. As my mom always says, “Don’t get your hopes up. You’ll be saying ‘I told you so’ to yourself before you know it.”

The Cubs lost to the Mets in a sweep earlier this week, despite the fact that the movie Back To The Future predicted Chicago’s best baseball team would win in 2015.  “The past few years have been terrible for the Cubs. Unfortunately, just as they started to win and gain momentum, they get swept in a big series and it was heartbreaking to watch,” Jacob Urban, senior and avid Cubs supporter said.

How a team can consistently end up being so bad is beyond me and everyone who lives in the Chicago area. Whether it be because of a lack of talent or a curse, the Cubs have been losing and breaking hearts since 1908. By this point, only the Man himself can break this streak of pure disappointment. Good luck next year Cubbies; us fans still love you.