It is not a good time to be a Chicago Cubs fan right now.

To be honest, it hasn’t been a good time to be a Cubs fan for a long time. Going on 98 years to be exact.

In the time that I have been a Cubs fan, there have been a couple of things that have made not winning a World Series bearable:

The Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series since 1918. Talks of a curse are ridiculous but I was beginning to get suspicious. Maybe there was something to the curse of the Bambino.

We all know what happened in 2004 to break the curse. The Red Sox played good baseball and won the World Series. Imagine that.

The White Sox had their own rumors of curses. The White Sox haven’t won a World Series since they threw one to the Cincinnati Reds in 1919.

But this season, they have one of the strongest teams that I have ever seen.

It was very difficult to put that last sentence down on paper.

This team has no weaknesses. It hurts to admit that.

Whenever they seem to be on their way to a loss, they find a way to come back.

Scott Podsednik has two postseason home runs.

The player who had a total of ZERO regular season home runs finished game two of the World Series with a walk-off homerun.

Misery loves company and Cubs fans had plenty of company.

But all of that company is about to go away.

Many upstate Cubs fans would agree that the animosity for the White Sox trumps any animosity for division rivals.

It is amusing to see White Sox fans get upset as they worry about not being on the front page of the newspaper even during their division title run.

There is a photo making its rounds on the Internet with the face of Steve Bartman on umpire Doug Eddings’ body. Eddings is the umpire who made a controversial call in game two of the American League Championship Series helping the White Sox win the game.

Steve Bartman is, well, he’s Steve Bartman.

The photo is supposed to represent what actually happened on that play, alluding to a theory that Cubs fans blame everything on Bartman and anything good that happens for the White Sox is Bartman’s fault as well.

White Sox fans should forget about Bartman. Forget about the Cubs. Forget about Cubs fans.

Enjoy their team and enjoy the fact that the World Series championship will be in Chicago for the first time in over eight decades.

Cubs’ fans would trade places with White Sox fans and be a fan of the second team in the Second City if it meant the Cubs were in the World Series.

Marco Santana is a sophomore journalism major. If you think that Bartman screwed up this column, tell Marco at cumas36@eiu.edu.