Very nice of the Padres to remind Cubs fans that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1984 NLCS. The Pads wore '84-style unis on a throwback Thursday at Petco Park with the Cubs in town.
The Cubs wore blue tops Thursday, just not their '84 vintage ones.
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Cubs fans know the story of '84 too well: Chicago won the first two games of the LCS at Wrigley Field. The series was best-of-five back then, so the Cubs needed just ... one ... win in San Diego to get to the World Series.
Well ...
They lost Game 3 handily. Then the Padres' Steve Garvey hit a walkoff homer in Game 4. And in Game 5 ... Leon Durham happened.
Thirty years later, still no World Series for the Cubbies — and no World Series triumphs for the Padres, either. They lost in five to the Tigers in '84 and were swept by the Yankees in 1998.
UPDATE: Karma alert: Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win! By a 5-1 count.
