By Rick Kaempfer
Now that September has arrived and the Cubs and Sox both begin the final month of the season in first place, questions about the inevitable Cubs-Sox World Series have begun arriving in the e-mail box of our Cubs Answer Man, Rick Kaempfer.
Rick has kindly consented to answer a handful of your questions below. If you have any other questions, e-mail him at amishrick@yahoo.com, and he’ll answer them in a future column.
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Q: I know everyone is worried about the upcoming Cubs-White Sox World Series and predicts it’s a sign of the apocalypse, but they met once before and nothing terrible happened. Isn’t that true?
A: Well . . . if you don’t count the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Naples, or the earthquake that destroyed San Francisco, or the tsunami in Hong Kong that killed 10,000 people, or the 8.2 earthquake that killed 20,000 in Chile, or the birth of Bugsy Siegel, Adolph Eichman, and Leonid Breschnev, then yes you’re absolutely correct – nothing terrible happened in 1906.
Posted on September 1, 2008