The Cubs haven't 'gone cold' for 101 years. They were a bad team for like 94 of those years, got caught by a white-hot team in 1969, lost to better teams in the playoffs in 1984, 1989 and 1998, lost to a team kind of maybe sort of on their level in 2007, 'went cold' in 2008, and had the 2003 collapse. The Cubs' playoff failures are spectacularly overdramatized because they've been so bad other times.