cubs fans haven't been let down too many times. they have lacked opportunities to be let down Let down as in are rarely worth watching until recently. Decades-long fans have had the hope beat out of them I was let down in 1984 and again in 2003. But to get worried about those years or any other year is foolish. The past has nothing to do with what will happen this year. If they don't win it this year, it won't because of the past or black cats or Leon Durham or whatever other pixie dust people want to come up with. That's what I tell some Cub fans and Cub haters alike who keep bringing this sort of nonsense up. The reality is, they have just plain sucked for years upon years and haven't had too many opportunities to win it all, as others here have said