November 4th, 2016 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka We’ve heard it before, the team that wins the World series is “probably going to win several of them.” And while there is no denying that the best team in baseball record wise just won the 2016 World Series and have a very young team with the core of their players still under team control for several more years, the game is not and has never been played on paper.
Leave it to my good friend and colleague J.P. Hoornstra from Southern California News Group to find a silver lining around the Dodgers otherwise disappointing 2016 season, and he do so not even 24 hours after the final out of Game-7 of the 2016 World Series.
Granted, Bovada Las Vegas still has the Cubs with the highest odds of winning two consecutive World Series championships (for the aforementioned reason) at 7/2, but they also have the Dodgers tied with the Boston Red Sox as 9/1 favorites. (A very good bet in my opinion).
But how often does a team repeat winning the World Series? That indeed is the million-dollar question and a rather fun one to look at.
Since World Series play began in 1903 there have been 14 repeat champions, with the New York Yankees owning six of the 14. After that you have the Philadelphia Athletics (the predecessors of the Kansas City and today’s Oakland Athletics) with two and the rest with one.
The most recent team to win consecutive World Series titles were (are you ready for this?) the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and 1993 over the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies respectively.
Joe Carter’s epic three-run walk-off home run in Game-6 of the 1993 World Series is still among the greatest in World Series history. It also gave the Blue Jays their second consecutive World Series title. No team has done so since. (Photo credit – Jerry Lodriguss)
But without question the most noteworthy (and ironic) consecutive World Series championships occurred a very very long time ago – 1907 to be exact. That year the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in four games (with one tie) over the Detroit Tigers. The Cubs would, of course, win again in 1908 over those same Tigers in five games. However, after that the Cubs would then go on a World Series drought that finally ended this past Wednesday night after 108 years – the longest championship drought in any professional sport.
So while the Chicago Cubs – and even more so their fans – can enjoy the prospect of potentially winning two in a row, they might be a little concerned after that. Because if the Cubs do, in fact, win the 2017 World Series – which Bovada gives them the best odds of doing – and if history repeats itself, their next World Series title won’t occur until 2125.
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May their new drought begin immediately.
And “Back to the Future XXVI” will predict them to win in 2124.
lol!
The Cubs seem to be positioned to compete for the WS championship for the next few years. However, a whole of things can interfere with those plans. It is difficult to repeat as they will find out.
Last night on local TV they talked with a lady who had been a life long Cubs fan having come from the Chicago area. She is 108 years old and held a baseball that has 108 double stitches in it. Huh!
The Cubs do look like a team that could repeat their World Championship next year and who knows how many more?
I doubt it would take them until 2125, to win their next one, after that. But of course, who knows? I can’t understand how you come to that conclusion.
Another 108 years from 2016 OBF. It was kind of a joke, but who knows. History does repeat itself on occasion.
I knew it added to 108 years but I can’t possibly believe that would happen to the same team. I also believe that the Cubs may have a pretty good team over the next few years. But, of course, I’m just anticipating that, because of their personal.
I think he was a bit tongue in cheek. He said: “Because if the Cubs do, in fact, win the 2017 World Series – which Bovada gives them the best odds of doing – and if history repeats itself, their next World Series title won’t occur until 2125.” They won 2, then took 108 years to win it again. If history repeats itself that will that takes us to 2125.
I reckon we’ve got 109 years to debate it.
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