People love graphs. People love watching other people wallow in misery. So, boy, do we have the Internet Uniform Resource Locator for you! The good folks at WBEZ have created an interactive graph detailing how many people were alive the last time your team won the World Series.
Almost everyone who remembers the Cubs winning the World Series is dead: a cheery Internet graph
You had an idea this was the case, but here’s an interactive graph.
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The page is filled with cheery thoughts like this:
The Social Security Administration estimates the mortality rate of people older than 107 at more than 50 percent, so the team loses half of its potential witnesses each year. Within the next decade, there won’t be a human being on Earth older than the Cubs’ streak of futility.
And graphs like this one:
Here’s one for the Cleveland Indians:
So go on! Play around with it! Feel sorry for yourself! This interactive graph is telling you what you already suspected, but gives you the proof you were missing.
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